My husband is an irredeemable optimist (for which I am very thankful, by the way), while I myself … well, if I am reluctant of calling myself a pessimist, I am still a firm disbeliever and sometimes annoyingly incredulous or skeptical. So, where he believes – I doubt. But we do make a good team. He makes me attempt things I wouldn’t otherwise try, the odds of success being in my opinion low. And I often make him think twice before investing in some projects or things that might seem rash. He sees the possibilities; I see the catch. When it comes to people, he is open and friendly; I am reserved and aloof. He inceptively assumes people are out there to help him; I would tend to assume they were there to put obstacles in my way or to profit from me in some way. He tends to believe everything they tell him; I tend to question everything.
I don’t know if all this has something to do with him being schooled in the United States and me having done my studies in France, but I wonder if it might not.
We each have our ways of succeeding, but I sometimes wish I had a bit more of his mindset and that he had a bit more of mine. Best would be to consult each other as much as possible, that way we definitely get a two-sided view of things.
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