The day after

Happy post-Election Day, everybody! Whether you're elated or disappointed with the results, there's one thing we can all be happy about... no more political ads, mailers, and Facebook posts for a while!

Over here, we're in the elated camp. JW is a diehard Democrat and political organizer. I was out there knocking on doors for Elizabeth Warren, my former professor and current Senator-elect.

Also, while I'm sure Mitt Romney is a good person in his personal life, as a governor he spent the entire time campaigning for president. He spent more time outside of Massachusetts than in it, and while he was out stumping for himself, he both disparaged our state and completely changed the positions on which he had run for governor. We saw firsthand how his convictions blow with the wind, and I feel like nobody else in the country cared what we thought because they dismiss people from Massachusetts as crazy liberals.

Election Day is like JW's Christmas. Every year he takes the day off to work for his political campaigns of choice, and for weeks beforehand he disappears, off to meetings and strategy sessions and phone banks. Last night he showed up around 12:30, wearing his Elizabeth Warren for Senate shirt and grinning from ear to ear.

This is how our marriage works. Election time is hard on me, just as my frequent absences for work are hard on him. But when one of us wants or needs to do something, the other is on board. The only question is how we can arrange our schedules to make it work. There's no resentment or weighing of whose activity is more important. We used to do that when we first had kids, but it just made both of us feel miserable and hypocritical. Now, we're 100% a team. (Although it helps that our politics are similar. I don't know how I would feel about him disappearing to work so hard for someone who doesn't support marriage equality or women's health. But meanwhile, go team!)