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Women Only
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Straight Female / 35
A Change In Life Event
I was a high achiever, valedictorian, full ride scholarship, top of my class in graduates school, recruited heavily by Fortune 50 companies, promoted to Director of Finance at 32. A coworker, another high achiever called me a work whore, a bitch, unhappy, ugly. He went for my throat, told me to quit or die inside, find a man, have babies, mop floors. But do it, don't procrastinate.
At 33 I met that man, he is a fishing guide in Louisiana, a Cajun red neck, called me a lousy woman. I had to prove him wrong, I had to show him I could cook if I wanted to. I had to please him, and that meant give up my job and move to the bayou country, wear jeans every day, cook every day, clean house. Become a housewife, my Finance MBA balanced a checkbook, AGI of 73,543 and part if that was deferred comp from my job.
My Japanese mother shrugged when I told her I was pregnant by a Boudreau, a 48 year old Cajun fisherman. I was going to stay home and not work. Barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. Good for you said my coworker, what happened? asked my sorority sister, are you insane? asked my father. No, I'm in love, I'm pregnant, I'm happy I said. I'm a Cajun's housewife I said, a Japanese American bayou queen.
At 33 I met that man, he is a fishing guide in Louisiana, a Cajun red neck, called me a lousy woman. I had to prove him wrong, I had to show him I could cook if I wanted to. I had to please him, and that meant give up my job and move to the bayou country, wear jeans every day, cook every day, clean house. Become a housewife, my Finance MBA balanced a checkbook, AGI of 73,543 and part if that was deferred comp from my job.
My Japanese mother shrugged when I told her I was pregnant by a Boudreau, a 48 year old Cajun fisherman. I was going to stay home and not work. Barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. Good for you said my coworker, what happened? asked my sorority sister, are you insane? asked my father. No, I'm in love, I'm pregnant, I'm happy I said. I'm a Cajun's housewife I said, a Japanese American bayou queen.
