When Lisa’s husband, Tom, starts hounding her about getting a second job, she becomes suspicious of his reasoning. Finally, fed up with his nagging, Lisa gets a job. Once there, Lisa learns a horrible truth about her husband.
In our home, I’m the one who makes more money.
It hadn’t been an issue before, but recently, my husband Tom has been pressuring me to take a second job. “You don’t even leave the house to work, so you cannot possibly be as tired as I am at the end of the day,” Tom said.
“But you’re a mechanic, Tom,” I retaliated. “You run your own business.
And you take three days off just because you have people to do the job.”
“Let’s just table this conversation,” he said dismissively.
And for a few weeks, we did table the conversation. I hoped that he wouldn’t bring it up again because I couldn’t understand why it was even a conversation. “Are you struggling financially, Lisa?” my mother asked me when I told her about Tom’s suggestion over a mother-daughter pasta date.
“No, not at all,” I replied.
“Look, we’re not difficult people, we’re not fancy, so our lives are easy to manage and sustain. It’s the fact that Tom was really pushing for this.”
“Do you think his business isn’t doing well?” she asked, sipping on her drink.
“That can’t be it,” I replied. “I’ve seen the number of cars that come in and out on a weekly basis.
It’s enough to turn a profit.
And he’s been employing new staff constantly. That’s also a good thing.”
“Then what is it?” my mother asked. “I have no idea,” I said, adding more grated parmesan onto my pasta.
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