Why is that?

(1) Over worried about (personal) future - in a way, I am. but not mine but my kids and my husband's kids. I'm 42, he's 55...there are those odds that we as husband and wife need to be prepared for.

(2)bent on strengthening financial security - of course, who wouldn't be. Don't tell me its not one of your objectives. Still the kids' education and the what-if's is the "why" of the matter.

(3)I am on an 8-hour job and its been my bread and butter for 2 and a half years. Leave my job, Qatar and be a plain wife? Sounds tempting...just waiting for my husband to come home after 5 long weeks off shore.

If I have this job, I will have my own to support my kids and parents and not being totally dependent on my husband's . At least, he wont say that I'm sending to my family the money he gives me for my allowance, right?

(4)Sacrificing life for a long time - I have to work so my kids and parents can have a better, easy life. I don't see anything wrong with it.

(5) Won't make any effort to change the circumstances any time soon.-- as they say, haste makes waste. Everything will happen in due course. Like my marriage, too many obstacles and yet we persevere.

Who can tell?

Maybe sometime soon, I will be posting from Scotland about my meeting with dweller and his family for a pint of beer ;P