"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have." - Ring Lardner It’s true that being a physician is hard – but often being married to a physician is even harder ! Many doctors acquire personality traits such as perfectionism, compulsiveness, and workaholism which help them provide better care to their patients, but end up making them problematic spouses. They expect to be in “control” all the time; and since they are so used to their patients putting them on a pedestal, they expect their spouses to do the same too – so that they can be quite impossible to live with.
Many take pride in being married to the profession, as a result of which they spend little time and energy in nurturing their spouse or cultivating intimacy. Most of their friends are other doctors , and usually they end up talking shop when they “socialize” , as a result of which the wife is…
