Bill Pierce is a conservative businessman; Carolyn Nolan is a liberal economics grad student. They agree that the sun rises in the east -- not on much else.
Carolyn Nolan thinks "all the good ones are taken" when she first meets Bill Pierce looking sexy but with a baby in his arms. She discovers that he isn't taken; then she discovers that he isn't good, either. He's an arrogant, opinionated, fossil. Still sexy, though.
Carolyn had decided to marry Bill despite his arrogance because she couldn't imagine marrying anybody else when Bill excited her so sexually. She's staying on her very best behavior, but sometimes it's awfully hard.
Bill Pierce married Carolyn despite all the advice. She might be infuriating, but she's even sexier. Now, he is exercising his self-control, difficult as that is sometimes.
Bill Pierce has always believed in keeping children safe and happy. He has figured that keeping Carolyn sexually satisfied was enough; let her look after her own happiness and safety otherwise. Now, Carolyn is wrapped around his *own* child. Monday mornings, June 17 to July 15.
Carolyn, as an economist, knows that wants are many and resources to satisfy those wants are limited. She wants to teach economics; she wants to have a child sometime; she wants to keep screwing Bill. The only way she sees to satisfy all those wants is to marry Bill and have their child while writing her dissertation. That doesn't make those tasks easy. Thursdays, June 20 t0 July 18.
Carolyn Pierce didn't agree with her husband often. They HAD agreed that they would have ONE, *1*, child. When they saw how they'd done with her and what her chance of maternity leave was, they might consider another. She agreed; Bill agreed. The twins hadn't agreed.
Bill Pierce had assented to his wife's career as an economist and a professor. He had enthusiastically cooperated in making her a mother. He just wanted Carolyn to spend a little more time being a wife. Friday evenings, April 17 - May 8
Carolyn Pierce had a full-time job teaching economics to students at UIC; she had a full-time job being mother to twin whirling dervishes. She neither needed nor wanted the job of being a mother substitute for a UIC student. Tuesday evenings; April 14 - May 5
