I wish I never lied about my profession to my wife’s parents

When I first was getting married to my wife, she urged me to tell her parents that I was a doctor or a lawyer.

She didn’t want them to know that I was an HVAC technician because she thought they would think bad about me.

I didn’t like this idea of lying to her parents about my profession, and I definitely was not ashamed of what I did for a living. She insisted though and so I carried on with the lie that I was a lawyer. I had to tell them what law firm I worked for and talked about some cases that I had to look up. It was a mess but they believed that I was a lawyer. The ironic thing is that I had the impression that my wife’s father did not like lawyers very much, but he did appreciate that I would at least be able to take care of his daughter. Eventually, I was tired of the whole charade about pretending to be a lawyer and hiding my HVAC company van around the block so her parents couldn’t see it when they came to visit. I asked why I couldn’t just put the HVAC company van in the garage, but she said they might go in the garage and see it there. Eventually I told my wife that I was going to tell the truth. She begged me not to though and this was becoming a tense situation. When her parents were over for dinner, I told them that I decided to leave the law firm when I got my HVAC certification. I said I was tired of working as a lawyer and I wanted to do something hands on. My wife was tense at this moment, but her father smiled and said he was glad I got out of that line of work to get into a more respectable type of career.

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