This is the first time I've ever seen a woman in a house, and I've never seen a woman in a house, and I've never seen a woman in a house, and I've never seen a woman in a house, and I've never seen a woman in a house, and I've never seen a woman in a house, and I've never seen a woman in a house. Later, I saw my friends are almost all white-collar women, I think everyone's eyes, I must be a candle burning at both ends of the professional women.
More precisely, we are all middle-aged professional women, how to say here, feel the role is more and more unappealing, as if almost to retire to the rhythm of square dancing. Undeniably, this is the established impression of most people on the middle-aged professional women, but we are not such a big mom.
Lynn's company is not far from my children's bookstore, and the two of us often meet on weekdays at noon to have lunch and chat. For mothers with children in school, a lunch date is the best option, and in the evening, when I get off work, I have to rush home to cook for my children, and chat with them about school.
Lynn has it a little easier than I do. She only has one daughter, and her parents still live in the neighborhood, so she picks up her kids from their house after work and simply fixes dinner for herself. She usually eats dinner alone, and the gentleman eats by himself at work before he goes home, and they have a roommate-like relationship as a couple.
For such a relationship, Lynn once took the initiative to want to do an end, want to say goodbye, each have a good income job, and the two sides of the property was originally independent, each month are each out of almost the same share of the money as the family's daily expenses, so that there is no so-called alimony and the distribution of property issues.
It's hard to imagine that her husband wouldn't let go of her, preferring to stay like this and not take the initiative to improve the relationship between husband and wife, who live on different floors of the townhouse and can't see each other at all if they're trying to avoid each other.
Lin and I analyzed Mr. not let go of the reasons, a large part of the property related, because she is the only daughter, get a lot of parental care, and even now live in the house is also her parents to give the first installment, in the marriage has been bought down. If the divorce is finalized in this way, the man can't take away the property that the woman owned before the marriage.
Moreover, Lynn's education is high, and her job income is high, plus she has the habit of investing, so it is conceivable that she is economically well-off. Now the expenses of the family, nominally each out of a share, basically the big expenses or by Lynn to take out, she is not so calculating person, just her husband wants to share the property, it is not possible to say.
Lynn knows her husband's intentions, and can only wait for him to figure out how to let go. Now she has a very colorful schedule. On weekday evenings when her daughter has piano lessons, she enrolls herself in a painting class at the same time, and on holidays when her husband is at home, she leaves her daughter at home to spend time with her father, and she goes to the park to play sports or hike in the nearby mountains by herself.
It is Lynn's choice and her wisdom not to confront her husband head-on and to let nature take its course in resolving issues between husband and wife. We had a discussion about this issue, but we know there is no such thing as the best choice, what suits you and your child is the best way, especially when your child is in the school stage, everything is prioritized for your child.
At our age, children are almost always in middle school or even going to college, and Fen is the exception, having just given birth to her third child last year, and the three children spanning a wide range of ages, from infants to middle schoolers. Although she said it was an accident, dare to turn this accident into a fact, still have to admire and congratulate her.
Of course, more enviable is her happiness. Fen is a proper famous school science and technology students, has a smart and rational mind, already have children have children, she risked the risk of advanced maternal age also want to give birth to the accidental oldest three, it must be the other half to give her happiness and sense of security, this is the most worthy of happiness.
Fen in the Hsinchu Science Park, a large electronics company's R & D department as a supervisor, the end of the year, just stock dividends is the income of the people working for ten years eight years, mansions and cars are her money to buy, Mr. University as a professor's income is far less than her. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and you'll be able to do it all at the same time.
The first time I saw this, I had to leave my job and stop working for a year to spend time with my kids. Although I have a Filipino maid to help me with the housework and the kids, I still do a lot of things myself, such as sending my kids to violin lessons or sending my baby to get vaccinated, and she takes time off work to do all these things.
Fin has the opportunity to work abroad, but she prefers to give up a lot of opportunities to take her position to the next level for the sake of her family and her children, and tries to strike a balance between her family and her work. Sometimes when I talked to her on the phone, she would tell me that she had to take her kids to class first and that she had to go back to the office for a meeting later on, and it was already past six in the evening.
In the workplace, when both spouses are busy at work, the woman often has to accommodate the man's work, as in the case of Finn's husband, who is a university professor, and the children's affairs are almost entirely on Finn's shoulders.
Commuting is not free, and it takes a lot of effort for women to juggle family and work at the same time. I run my own small business, and although my time is free, being busy is no easier than going to work, and even busier and more tiring than working people. There was a time when I often went to bed at 2 or 3 am.
Although opening a store is a bit like freelancing, where the hours are set by yourself, the store has clerks to help out at the door, and it doesn't seem to matter if I show up or not, it's essential to demand that you commute and do things like a professional woman if you want to run a good business. That's how I demand it of myself, and that's how booksellers and customers trust me.
Since I'm a businesswoman who acts like a working woman, it's inevitable that I'm busy with both family and work. Whether it's a bookseller or a customer, I tell them to make an appointment before they come to the door, and if they don't have an appointment, they can't blame me for having to go out and pick up the kids from school, which is understandable.
This situation is very common in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Comparatively speaking, professional women on the mainland are much happier, except for the elderly or aunts at home to help take care of the children, and their working hours are relatively free and easy.
Working women in Taiwan are burdened with the dual pressures of family finances and raising children. Our generation of middle-aged professional women are even more faced with the transformation of the couple's relationship, the competitiveness of the workplace, and are still far from the days of square dancing.