The (software) engineer's wife

Well, when I saw his picture,(yeah arranged marriages still happen), I simply had no thoughts..but it wasn't until I met him,that I realized that THIS IS IT, and so the process of our wedding began to unfold. Since then, it's been three months of togetherness.Like any other marriage mine is almost the same..we have our roles clearly defined,there is already a power structure in place and other "couple"things...BUT..there's a distinct difference between my marriage and that of any other person on the street, I happen to b an engineer's wife! SO WHAT? you may ask...well, that little word..pardon me, title makes my entire world absolutely and crazily different.First of all,whether you would like to read it or not....no engineer is ever happy with his current job...so yes YOU,the better half, would naturally become the mute listener of the stories of the ordeal of the IT jungle, day after day! The terms like hike,switch and others, would raise their ugly heads even in the most romantic or the most laziest of hours.... When Shakespeare scribbled the famous lines,TO BE OR NOT TO BE..he was referring to an engineer...so my dear counterparts,your suggestions of quitting or staying fall on deaf ear..and over time you would realize that to survive the indecisiveness,you better zip your mouth,only occasionally opening it, to let out..umms and hmms,wherever appropriate and when the conversation is over, garnish it with a "Everything would be alright, Dear!" statement. Everyman loves his machine, but an engineer loves it to the point of obsession.So while he's engaged to any form of machine,talking to him feels like talking to a black hole..nothing ever comes out of it!!!! but if you are lucky,you may get your responses,by the end of the day,when the system needs some cooling off....but the good thing,the unresponsiveness makes you independent and if anything goes wrong,you can blame it on the black holish attitude!!And then there is that onsite project,any engineer's dream and a wife's nightmare( if she's not getting the visa)But every cloud has a silver lining, and in my marriage,the silver lining is my husband,the engineer.Engineers are, by far the most independent and flexible species of the human race.the engineering days prepare them for anything in the world..and as my husband puts it,they are trained for extreme conditions :-) Living with them might get lonely at times but hey doesn't it give us more time for our own ambitions and dreams!!Over the time an engineer's wife shall learn to celebrate his achievements,while moving towards her own.