Limited by your own definition of "good", perhaps?
My wife doesn't want me to leave the area, or else she will leave me. So if I do, my marriage is gone. It is a good marriage and I want to keep it.Huh?!? You call that "good"???
Looking at things objectively, we have:
- A labour market on the brink of depression
- Norm, in the same condition, and with rather specific requirements for a job
- Ergo --> A very real possibility that you'll have to consider moving somewhere else in order to get the kind of job you want/need
- Something called "marriage", which most of us would take to mean an equal commitment from both spouses...
- A history since time began of people, all over the world, who have, when the need arose, upped stakes and moved to where they could get a job -- talking it over with their spouses, and taking said spouses with them
- A history since time began of people, all over the world, who have, when the need arose, upped stakes and moved with their spouses, to where said spouses could get a job
- Ergo --> A readiness to up stakes and move with your spouse to where said spouse can get a job seems to be very much a part of the generally accepted ("common-sense") definition of "equal commitment from both spouses"
- A wife that threatens to leave Norm if he has to move
- A husband, Norm, who calls this a "good" marriage.
Or, in other words: Who the fuck is she married to, anyway -- you, or the St. Louis area?
