She told me he wrote the list of things she had to do
I don’t know where some people get their ideas, but many of them make little sense. My brother-in-law woke up one morning and told his wife he was going to own an HVAC company. If he had been an HVAC technician, this may have made some sense, but he wasn’t. He was an insurance salesperson. He said he had read where HVAC company owners were making seven figures annually and he wanted to get on the gravy train. He had had expectations of finding a partner and opening a local HVAC company and eventually going national. I wasn’t sure where he was going to get the money or the business sense to open an HVAC company, but my sister had stars in her eyes. She told me that by the end of the decade, they could be millionaires and she would never need to work again. I’m sure she saw the look of skepticism I wore, but she was ignoring me. For two weeks, she talked nonstop about everything she had to do so they could open an HVAC company. She had lists of inventory they had to buy, and lists of things they needed for the bank and other people. One afternoon, I asked her what her husband was doing to prepare for ownership of an HVAC company. She told me he wrote the list of things she had to do. It suddenly dawned on her she was doing all the work. He was coming home from the insurance company and double checking that she was doing all the legwork and then relaxing while she still took care of him.