[DearAbby]Newlyweds Butt Heads Over Career and Family Choices

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Newlyweds Butt Heads Over Career and Family Choices - Dear Abby

≫ newlyweds: 신혼부부

≫ butt heads (over sth): (머리를) 들이받다, 충돌하다, (sth에 대해) 대치하다

 

DEAR ABBY: I am a teacher. I have a young son, and I love being off when he is out for school holidays and spending summers together. I feel I have the best of both worlds. I recently married a woman who is 14 years younger than me and is also a teacher. My wife hates the profession. She feels it isn't exciting or respectable enough. Her opinions about teaching hurt my feelings because I believe it is a noble career, plus it gives me quality time with my son.

≫ profession: ⓝ 직업, 직종(특히 교육 관련)

profess: ⓥ 주장하다(특히 사실이 아닌 것을 사실이라고)

ex) She professes her innocence. 그녀는 무죄를 주장한다.

cf) professor: 교수, proposition: 제안, 해야할 일

 

My wife has decided to join the police force. It didn't happen out of the blue. We have discussed it for the last five years. I have told her it isn't the life I want. I worked hard to reach a point in my life to have a family and take summer vacations with my son. I was honest with her from the beginning. She often says she wants the time with our family too, and that she won't join the police force. Then, days later, she brings it up again.

We have been married only six months, but I regret it already. I didn't get married to be alone all the time and to take vacations without my spouse. I love her, but I feel betrayed and lied to. I also don't think she'll be a good cop -- she is just obsessed with police shows and thinks it's going to be like that. She's throwing away a great career for one I think she'll leave in a year or two. I feel our biggest challenge is her lack of experience. What do I do? --

≫ join the police force: 경찰이 되다

≫ out of the blue: 갑자기 ≒ suddenly

ex) like a bolt out of the blue: 청천벽력처럼, 뜬금없이

≫ spouse: 배우자

≫ be lied to: 거짓말에 속다

ex) I don't like to be lied to. 나는 거짓말에 속고싶지 않다.

 

DEAR WIFE/MOM: Calm down. There is no guarantee that even if your wife applies she will be accepted into law enforcement in anything more than an administrative capacity. Some sessions with a licensed marriage and family therapist might help the two of you to better communicate.

You each appear to have very different ideas about what a happy marriage consists of. If a compromise can't be reached, and because your marriage has been such a short one, it might be better for the two of you to cordially part ways.

≫ compromise: ⓝ 타협, 절충 ⓥ 타협하다, 굽히다

ex) This model represents the best compromise between price and quality. 이 모델은 가격과 품질의 최적의 절충안이다.

I refuse to compromise my principles. 내 원칙을 굽힐 생각이 없다.

≫ cordially: ⓐⓥ 진심으로, 몹시

cordial: ⓐⓙ 화기애애한, 다정한

ex) They cordially detest each other. 그들은 서로 지독히 싫어한다.

≫ part ways: 관계를 끝내다, 서로의 길을 가다

 

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