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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not putting the blame on either you or your wife, but are the either of you professionally successful?

I grew up in a household where my mom has a PhD in biochem, dad is a renowned doctor in his field, and brother finished college early with 4.0 and got into med school (he also had the accompany stats like 1600 SAT--this was in early 2000's, skipped senior year yaddee yada) and is now a cardiologist.  I, on the other hand, was the black sheep of the family and rebelled anything remotely related to my parent's profession and coasted throughout life. My brother on the other hand was opposite from me and constantly received pressure from himself to live up to our parent's unspoken expectations. I guess I turned out alright myself, somehow got into law school and now working a very fulfilling job as an attorney at a renowned government agency in my field. At the end of the day, I relied on my genetically given intelligence more than effort.

Having said all that, I think it really depends on what type of person DD is and not what society has forced her to become. Again, not blaming this on the two of you, but did you or your wife set the bar really high in term of academic success and ingrained that into the mind of DD during her formative years? [/quote]

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