[Anonymous]

Would anyone have a good idea for me? How do I get my wife to show some interest to my accounting career? She seems so uninterested in all my hard work.

[Mayo]

O_o

Mayo, BBA, Macc

[Missy]

Before I can respond, I need to know how much SINCERE interest do you take in what she does? Can you give some examples of how you show interest in her career?

Licensed Massachusetts Non Reporting CPA since 2012
Finance/Admin/HR Manager

[Anonymous]

She is a housewife taking care of our house and children, and I do make it my business to inquire all about her day

[Missy]

So you're looking for her to simply inquire about your day and she doesn't do that ever? I am not being wise, as a wife and mother who's been through the exams as well what you do is hard, what she does is equally hard, actually I take that back what she does is far more difficult than working and studying for the exams and if I had to choose between the two, I would do the exams all over again multiple times.

You want the most important person in your world to stroke your ego a bit, its what we all want and is totally normal. She wants the same. You'd better be giving more ego stroking than you're getting because she's doing the most important work any person can ever do, raising little human beings to be wonderful big human beings.

Been with the same guy going on thirty years and two almost grown kids. If you're not having some need met, chances are neither is she. Find out what she needs from YOU and you will assuredly start getting more of what you need from HER. Trust me I don't WANT to listen to the details of freaking Wrestlemania and John Cena, but being sincerely interested in what he enjoys is reciprocated in the garden center at Home Depot when he doesn't know an annual from a perinneal and couldn't care less if our yard was filled with crushed stone.

Licensed Massachusetts Non Reporting CPA since 2012
Finance/Admin/HR Manager

[kiester]

When I want to talk about work I take my husband to a sports bar. If we don't belly up, I make sure there is a tv behind my general direction so we can both at least pretend he is interested.

Accounting is boring!

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[Anonymous]

Moral of this thread:
– Don't get married
– Don't have kids
– Quit accounting

[Anonymous]

Have you told her that this is important to you?

I have to agree with @keister, accounting is boring even for people who do it. Anytime my life partner asks about what I'm working on, I'll try to explain it, but both of our eyes usually glaze over. He supports me and knows that I work hard but it's really not that fun to talk about.

Plus, it's really hard to make anyone do anything they don't want to do. Maybe you don't care and want her to ask whether she actually cares or not, and maybe simply telling her that it's important to you will do the trick and she just didn't realize it mattered…BUT I think having to tell someone to ask and having them ask only because I told them to is a frustrating situation for everyone involved.

[Skynet]

Combine “50 Shades of Grey” and any CPA Review together and use your imagination ; )

[Bear-Bear]

Hahahahahaha!!!

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