Good article. When I took a job 300 miles from home in So Cal working for a large corporation where you could find anything on line from A -Z, my wife stayed in central Ca to work and take care of the house I had owned since 1996.

A month after I started the job she said she had something she wanted to tell me. I of course thought the worse, then she confessed that she had gotten a trainer. I said, “oh I thought you were going to tell me you met someone else.”

She was working out with the trainer three times a week, and on her own two to three times a week. He motivated her to show up and put the work in. She was getting in the best shape of her life. I was proud that she was following his instructions. He taught her new exercises and the results were showing.

Sometimes we all need to new outside motivation. He was nice guy, he was himself clearly physically fit and was earning his pay. I wasn’t jealous or upset she was spending money on a trainer. She was making an investment in her health.

That for me was all that mattered.