Listen,Support,and Care

Abstract

My spouse Marika is an extremely ambitious and diligent person. That is why I was not surprised when she told me one day that she was dreaming of writing a doctoral thesis. “Why not, you can do it”, I burst out. After a moment, I had butterflies: what would a dissertation process mean to us? Would I become a single parent for our little son while my wife was creating her doctoral thesis in the darkness of her study? How would our financial situation allow her to do the comprehensive and long-term research? Mostly, I was nervous by the fact that Marika wanted her doctoral thesis to cover anorexia.