When Your Significant Other is a Writer

The proper care and feeding of scribes requires a complete set of skills definitely not in any manual.

I’m the writer in my house.

In order to keep my marriage sacred, what follows are not my wife’s words about the quirky habits of yours truly.

I tend to expose those myself in my various articles here on Medium.

No, for this story I interviewed 17 non-creative partners of whose spouse or significant other is of the writerly persuasion.

I love the answers I’ve received. They were honest and will be kept anonymous, and I’m going to jump off from there.

So to those anonymous responses …

• “He never listens to me. His head is always buried in his work.”
• “She writes naked. I hate it. I’m STILL attracted to my wife after 24 years. I see her bouncing around the house naked with a pen in her mouth, the last thing I care about is the next piece of dialogue from one of her characters.”
• “He writes in his birthday suit. Sometimes he lays in bed propped up by a pillow with nothing on but his iPad. I can’t take it. I know he’s working but he comes off like such a lazy ass sometimes. I bet no other writers write with no…