My husband and I met as teachers.

When we were introduced, I instantly respected him. I was drawn to our shared desire to teach and help young people, and to our mutual love of all things related to English Language Arts.

When we worked together, we maintained our professionalism and didn’t even realize we liked each other until later. When I transferred schools, we ran into each other at a track meet where we were each coaching, and the rest is history.

I loved having the same career as my spouse, because he understood everything I was going through. We could both lament together and build each other up with real teaching advice.

But due to a…