i can make my own living just as well as he can make his he ought to be glad i'm working just because he can't stand competition he wants me to quit my work isn't important enough i'm only a woman but he dream of wearing a wedding ring no matter how much i tell him i like it but i'm as good as he is i've got a brain of my own and i intend to make the most of my life too yes i want a home and kids but i'm not going to be a fool like idea that they were the pants is bigger diploma man is a piece of paper again here she's got the world at her feet when she hangs on her name you think it was a shame to be a jackson i write the copy but it comes out as a picture story by virginia chase she break your neck for a good shot at our home i'd like a bachelor rooming house so bob time she learned what comes first marriage or her job everybody else leads a normal life why can't we get up with warmed up leftovers and dishes in the sink she can't even find time to sew on a button for me now mom used to take care of dad how happy both of them are genius got no such respect for a man what was he thinking of when she said i do a roommate to help with the dishes  does a man work for beating his brains out to make something out of himself his wife doesn't look up to him instead she competes with me and makes a half mad out of me not half woman out of herself and  like a fool thought i was getting a wife i was sure who was boss even if we wind up in the courts this wasn't the first time the jacksons marriage had shown signs of cracking and the next morning as it happened  morning after they were assigned to the same story here they were who was to blame neither and but each one felt he was being asked to give up more than he could afford yet almost without knowing why they moved toward each other and fumbled for some way of coming closer together wife what happened nothing i've made up my mind i'm quitting the job are you serious why would you do nothing when you come right roommate laugh at my jokes you've got a mind of your own and you've got to use it it's about time i have to do it you really are how much you're saying doing things to me a year ago i have heard that a i never save a penny that why it's my money house kids kids in the car we've got to start saving and all that other forty bucks a week forget that's a lot of money in a year we can cut down on our allowance to cut  and bring in another ten dollars that's five hundred dollars a year we see the food budget if we need home two more days a week and that for a jacket can wait to maybe you catch on quick fund make money like this anywhere just made a chunk of dough and sixty instead of for a week now why that's wonderful mike you're wondering where would i be without twentieth and last month when we did that hospital story when was that town why i think you better take me to the doctor  jackson decided to work at their marriage it's no coincidence perhaps that for the last seven years the marriage worked with them not perfectly of course but well enough they were tough years too full of crises in the normal run of trouble but the jacksons took them in stride mike as one is promotion by hard work the same way as made himself a happy home a little luck but mostly sweat and tears there have been two additions to the family tommy is seven and a budding ties that mike gets a kick out of seeing young muscles and skills develop he can nearly remember when he was seven in relationship isn't brittle always of the cracking point like it used to be mike isn't troubled by the fact that virginia still has their own work to do once in a while they've long since stopped worrying about who's breadwinner and whose house make mike's dignity is much more touch why not some guys boast of their sensitivity to the feel of a fishing line and mike thinks handling a prima donna is even trickier homelife but the jacksons like most american home life is a curious jumble of interests and need to make it everybody's family table takes a lot of doing mike in virginia have learned they can make it theirs by being aware of everybody else's one by taking time out for the others they make time for themselves these days but in years proud of mike success they're not competing any more why should their budgets and careers and differences of personalities don't have to mean trouble it's a good deal for both partnership without a boss the fruits of adjustment a little noisy but mighty sweet