The Other Half: What It’s Really Like Being Married to a Teacher

I often feel like at the end of the week I'm moving out, and at the beginning of the week I'm moving in, 'cause you're always transporting things back and forth, using things at home and then taking them to school, and vice versa.

Yeah.

For sure.

For sure.

What do you admire most about teachers?

That's a good one.

I'd probably say it's their heart for their kids, honestly.

Like, they would literally run through a wall for your students.

Teachers in general.

What would they...

Yeah.

What do you admire most about teachers in general?

Just how much of their own...

I don't know if this is the right way of saying it, but I think you might get what I'm trying to say, but it's how much of your own happiness you give up to make sure that your classroom is perfect, not only for the next day, but for the next week, for the next year.

You know, how much time you spend lying in bed at night working away at what can I do differently, or how can I teach this differently tomorrow? And your brain's never really ever shut off from what you're doing.

So it's just, it's incredible that you guys don't burn out.

But we do, though.

That's the-

We...

That's a good point.

It's, it's incredible that you don't burn out earlier or burn out a week into the school year, because it's a million miles an hour from day one, and it doesn't slow down- Until two weeks after the kids are gone, and then you go away on, hopefully away for that first week of summer break and try to calm down again, but you can't shut off.

It's no different than for myself when I'm working on a project at work or whatever.

From the minute that project starts to the minute it ends, you're always thinking about it, but all the projects we do are short stints.

It's a month here, two months there.

You guys have 10 months of just about everything.