Inspired by my wonderful friend Tiffany, I decided to ponder this topic. I ultimately believe in a perfect environment that relationships and marraiges should be partnerships. Where someone is slacking, the other should be right there to pick it up. People have individual talents and strengths, and I believe you should always defer to the more qualified person. However, sometimes you can run into the problem of too many chiefs and not Indians. I think it's all a matter of understanding that by submitting to someone else's lead, you are not necessarily forsaking power of your own in the relationship. Whether you do that in terms of raising your children or finances, or whatever, as with most other relationships, it all begins with balance.
I believe that everyone can be satisfied with a little effort and a little mutual sacrifice like the couple above. In the midst of so many people worried about sacrificing career for love, no one talks about those who make it work like the couple pictured above. Now, Barack Obama is the hottest politician in the streets with books and speeches galore, but his wife Michelle is an accomplished attorney and leader in her own right and she was a boss in the game well before she and Barack got married. Yet despite their quite extensive ambition to become the best, they have a strong family and better yet a strong family life. It can be done, and they're doing it on the biggest stage you can imagine. There's no reason we can't all learn a lot from them.
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