There are 3 approaches here:
1) Get your wife to love Emmy too
2) Get your wife to appreciate that spending time and money on Emmy is
better (or no worse) than other things you could spend time & money on
3) Ignore her remarks
Only you know which approach will work best with your wife!
Whatever you do, I suspect that you will still have moments when you need to
keep up your spirits. Sometimes progress seems quick and at other times you
spend hours (days...) and seem to get nowhere.
I find that it helps to think of each little task as an achievement.
Lysander
At 01:58 PM 3/22/2003 -0800, Larry Colen wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:19:30PM -0500, Zubrovka wrote:
>
>
> > I was standing there looking at the interior and my wife walks in and
> > says "Is that Emmy?" (name we called the MG back when she was
> > running in the early 80's) and I say "yep" and the wife says, "what a
> > hunk of junk, why don't you find something that looks like a car"
> > then she walked out. I looked at the lil car and patted it on the
> > trunk lid and whispered "she didn't mean it". I mean the car
> > actually looked worse after the name calling.
> > I got to thinking, this is where a lot of people give up on their
> > projects, when people who matter to them make hurtful remarks.
> > So what do y'all do?
> > It made me have more resolve to fix the car.
> > I have very good memories of jauntily driving down country lanes in it.
> > Anyhow, just wondering how y'all cope with the down side.
> > John
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