My husband doesn’t have a college degree and he can match my stride in life. I have a higher IQ, but we make each other better, and enjoy our time together, and are working toward the same goals while building the same life, so what does it matter? He’s much funnier than I am and knows way more about history that I ever could, and I’m better at numbers.
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My parents have HS diplomas, but that is it. They both did well at their jobs and made nice middle class money. My mother was the more disciplined one about money and a lot of other things, and came from a farming family, while my dad worked union jobs, was pretty handy and seemed to figure out how to do most things he ever needed to do. My sister and I both did well in school and took on challenging college majors, so pretty sure there is some genetics to play in all of that happening even if they don’t get much credit on paper.
This is classic IQ vs EQ
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Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven’t got: a diploma.
Then you mess up the Pythagorean Theorem.
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I could have posted this. Except maybe working toward the same goals. But that’s another thread. We do like each other, and I’m not concerned about being with him 24/7 when we retire (although I’ll still have my book clubs and crafty things so it won’t really be 24/7) so I think we’ll be ok.
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Yeah my parents have similar degrees from the same college. I’d guess my mom had a far higher gpa. She is way smarter than my dad. She would have been a fabulous actuary if she’d had the notion and encouragement.
My parents graduated college 2 years before I did. I think it’s cool that they had the guts to go back to school while raising 5 kids. (Well, 4, as the 1st was mostly raised.)
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