Marriage to someone involved in the creative arts can sometimes be an interesting exercise. It doesn’t matter whether it is writing, painting, sculpture, pottery, music, theatre or film or any other creative arts.
One aspect one writer brought up is that many involved in the creative arts do not make great incomes. We’ve all heard of the struggling artist in the garret. Writer, actor, artist it’s not such a cliché but often the reality. So for this reason they need a spouse with a regular income.
Sometimes the person with a creative temperament can be a little hard to live with too. For example a couple of writers I know mentioned recently that when they are writing, which is even if they are not at desk or keyboard but could be anywhere they are so involved with their characters, they tend to forget about other people, forget about the real world as they are so firmly entrenched in their fictional world.
At times though we think the world and marriage partners in particular ought to treat the person involved in the creative arts differently because they have that creative temperament. I admit at times they can be more emotional. Having a creative temperament may mean you may be more imaginative or feel things more deeply, but it is not a license to be self centered and thinking only of your own needs, as can happen.
I was listening the other day on the way home from church to the radio and they played Wind beneath my Wings. Whether you like Bette Midler or even the song, which I know some people consider soppy, there is an element of truth in it. Those of us in the creative arts need that person who upholds us and is always there for us, who will encourage. But it should never be a one way street. We should always be that for our spouse too.
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