Sorry just catching up the past few years, and haven’t really read much of your other posts, so not sure whether this was your long term “plan” all along, or something that just randomly happened.
But, wow, now that’s a relationship - your wife throwing out that kind of dare, and apparently accepting the outcome happily, regardless of what it happens to be (or at least that’s how it seems to read to me).
Have you considered that maybe it wasn’t a dare at all – and that maybe it was her way of forcing you to make the decision you already subconsciously knew you were going to take, eventually? Either way, full marks to both of you.
Personally I’d love to be able to find out for sure, either way, for myself – so I envy the opportunity you’ve been presented with. But at the same time I’d be sh!t scared of the outcome.
For me, though, I’d have to be interstate or overseas, so that I could relax into it, I wouldn’t be worried about run into anyone I knew (disaster recovery plan), and so that I could start in full-time mode from the get-go, and therefore no “WTF?” kind of questions being asked (change management plan) - although they'd obviously come if you decided to continue, but at least you wouldn't have to deal with them in the short term.
But, wow, now that’s a relationship - your wife throwing out that kind of dare, and apparently accepting the outcome happily, regardless of what it happens to be (or at least that’s how it seems to read to me).
Have you considered that maybe it wasn’t a dare at all – and that maybe it was her way of forcing you to make the decision you already subconsciously knew you were going to take, eventually? Either way, full marks to both of you.
Personally I’d love to be able to find out for sure, either way, for myself – so I envy the opportunity you’ve been presented with. But at the same time I’d be sh!t scared of the outcome.
For me, though, I’d have to be interstate or overseas, so that I could relax into it, I wouldn’t be worried about run into anyone I knew (disaster recovery plan), and so that I could start in full-time mode from the get-go, and therefore no “WTF?” kind of questions being asked (change management plan) - although they'd obviously come if you decided to continue, but at least you wouldn't have to deal with them in the short term.