Many thanks for your response. It is, quite honestly, as we have suspected. Of course, with regards to my husband's 'take' on all of this there is an element of 'this is what I do' and hence inevitably there will be a coming to terms with not looking at the legal profession. But the question is, where does he look? As I have said, he is a highly intelligent man, extremely personable and hard working (and I now it would help if he earned more than me - probably not hard, as I'm a teacher!! :-)