While I always meant to become a mother, I didn’t set out to become a housewife. I suppose that by the time I became a wife, a 家内, the kanji, reading “inside (内) the house (家),” meant it was inevitable; that it was written, in fact. Especially since I now had a 主人, a husband, or a “main (主) person (人).” A protagonist in my life, and I wasn’t it.
