Engagement/Marriage vs. Career

Liked this in an article I read by Elissa Schappell "Married at 24: Crazy in Love or Just Crazy?"

"But there's been a downside for me, too. While I knew that committing to Rob obviously meant a big change in my life — it would really cut into my dating — it never occurred to me how tying the knot might affect my career. Outside of a sunburn from our on-the-cheap weeklong honeymoon in Portugal, nothing, as far as I was concerned, had really changed. But in the eyes of the world, I had. I was a wife. Off-limits. Some days it seemed everywhere I looked — publishing, retail, the art world — doors were opening for single women simply because they still had sexual currency to spread around."

http://lifestyle.msn.com/relationships/couplesandmarriage/articlemc.aspx?cp-documentid=5213699&GT1=10324

Hot Topics: The Wedding

This may be hard for the world to swallow, but there was "me, the accomplished human" before there was "me, the bride."

Would anyone like to meet the person I spent three decades trying to build, rather than the one who was created the day a diamond and sapphire engagement ring appeared?

I do believe she might have something to say.