Keeping Our Husbands Alive

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By Carol Evans

Twitter: @CarolEvansWM

As the founder and President of Working Mother Media I have been involved with the advancement of working moms for 30 years. I am often a keynote speaker on the subject of work-life balance, the advancement of women, barriers facing women of color, and leadership. When asked to appear on major talk shows including The Early Show, The Today Show, Oprah, Good Morning America, PBS's To the Contrary and on hundreds of radio shows or to comment in newspapers nationwide, I love to tell the world how hard working mothers work to keep their families and the businesses they work for moving and growing. I told many of my stories in the award-winning book: This is How We Do It: The Working Mothers' Manifesto.

Join me in this amazing conversation. By the way, I would not be a working mom without my two great kids - all grown up - Julia Rose and Robert Scott; and my husband Bob Coulombe is by my side every step of this journey. Let me know what you are thinking!

Keeping Our Husbands Alive

Posted on March 31, 2008

After years of vigilence that expressed itself mostly in nagging I was finally vindicated about my husband's health.

I had been saying for years and years that he was too heavy. He was 20 pounds lighter than he is now when I began nagging about this, and as his weight gradually climbed to its current level I continually knew I was right--every pound of the way.

A few weeks ago he began to get shortness of breath, which was then diagnosed as heart disease, which then resulted in 2 arterial stents being put in. He feels so much better now, but his doctor has insisted that he lose 20 pounds. Of course, his doctor has insisted on this before, but now we both have a major medical incident to back up his recommendation and my nagging.

I have no idea if this medical scare will actually help him to get control of his weight or not. But I do know that I will continue to give him ideas for weight loss as if his life depended on it. And I hope he listens this time.