Are you f*****g kidding me? How many times have you promised me that you would finish that?” I hated sounding like a b***h, but Rick, my husband, continually promised to help me finish projects around the house yet never actually followed through on them. His excuses were always the same. I was getting so good at predicting them that I sometimes mouthed them to myself as he said them. “I told you, I have a lot going on at work. I’m not the one sitting at home all day Lois.” He thought this point was some kind of trump card, but it made my blood boil. He never took my business seriously, for the simple fact that I was able to work on it from home. I put years of blood, sweat, and tears into it in order to get it off the ground, and I still worked hard on it each and every day. This hard

