'Professional' partners

By Ruhanie Perera and Laila Nasry

If you were a lawyer would you like to have a lawyer partner to argue with all day, or if you were a doctor would you like to have someone whose job was such that they'd be home more often than you?

Nilu (20):
I set my standards high. I'd like my man to be a lawyer, a doctor or an engineer. Someone in a different profession for sure - there would be less arguments and we wouldn't be wasting our time trying to teach each other what to do. That becomes messy.

I want someone who can help people or help the country, basically someone who can make a difference. But I'm not going to dump a guy because he wasn't a lawyer or a doctor. As long as he's a nice guy that's all that really matters. 

After all his job is his decision, not mine - since I'm into management, I'll just manage him.

Manoli (21):
It doesn't really matter to me what my future partner does. In fact my fiance is into marketing and that suits me just fine. I never really did have any expectations like 'my future partner must be this'. As long as he has a job, is okay with it and can support me, that's all that matters.

Actually it's helpful because I do management and that sort of goes hand in hand with marketing. And if ever I need to get any help where my studies are concerned (or even in the future), he's there so that does come in handy.

Roshani Perera (28): 
I wouldn't want my partner to be in the same profession as me because that would be boring. Different professions would be great. Then he could tell me about his and I about mine making life more interesting. I would like my partner to be in a field that is not extremely pressuring or one that would not demand a lot of his time like that of a doctor's, who is on call all the time. 

Rehan de Silva (20): 
I would like my partner to be in the same field as I'm and that is merchandising. Because it would be much easier to relate to one another and we could even help each other out. But of course of she was to change fields I wouldn't mind her gettinginto something like advertising or beauty culture.

Actually I'm fine with any profession that makes her happy and is no threat to our relationship. But modelling which would 'expose' her and a job in an airlina which would have her flying around the world and home for just a week, are a definite no.

Sajith Wijetunga (21):
I wouldn't mind my partner engaging in any profession other than an illegal one like drugs orprostitution or a profession similar to mine. Because then on Saturdays and holidays all we will be talking of is work. Also I wouldn't want her to be an air hostess because that would mean no quality time spent at home. Othor than that any profession that would make her happy and she could make a success of, is fine with me.

Ravi (name changed):
I think it would be pretty fun if my wife and I were in the same profession. Then we could work till late together, discuss stuff that happens at work basically we would have a lot more in common. So we'd have a lot more to share. The best thing would be that I wouldn't have to go through major traffic jams to pick her up.

I want to be a lawyer, so she'd have to be a lawyer too. It would be a little like Billy and Georgia in 'Ally Mcbeal'. May be we could have our own law firm.

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