We were young; we were smart; we were looking forward to the world of work. And _____(1) we graduated from Oxford University in the early 1970s, my wife and I thought we.d _____ (2) it all. We.d both have successful, satisfying careers (事业). We.d have _____ (3) time to travel the world and have fun. We.d _____ (4) in our kids. up-bringing and _____ (5) the housework. We believed that the world of staying-at-home moms and job-trapped (为工作所困不能脱身的) dads had_____(6) sometime around 1969.
We were _____(7), of course. In her 30s, my wife gave _____(8) her job as a government official to have children. Trying to balance (平衡) work and family, she took part-time jobs that_____(9) some cases were enjoyable _____(10) that never gave her the advancement that you get _____(11) you.re in full-time employment.
Meanwhile -- first for fun, _____(12) because the extra income helped -- I allowed work to take over my life, spending nights and weekends _____(13) on books or TV films. I.ve _____ (14) nothing close to the time I wanted to _____ (15) my two daughters. True, there should be some rules against well-paid people complaining about their lot in life, but the three-way balance among work, family and the non-job, non-kid things that _____(16) much spice(情趣) to life-- whatever happened _____(17) my tennis game or the trips to foreign lands-- is nothing_____ (18) what my wife and I imagined it would be. It.s not just women who are _____ (19) that modern life has not fulfilled their various needs. _____ (20) are millions of men who wanted their marriage to be a true partnership of equals.
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