Married to the Job: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Discworld]]'': Sam Vimes a text book example. He's constantly running off on his wife Lady Sybil, often in the middle of meals. In ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'' he's so preoccupied with the central mystery it takes an entire book before he realizes that {{spoiler|Sybil's pregnant}}.

** Also [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] in the same book, when Sybil accidentally discovers the location of a secret room in the embassy while measuring the floors for carpets:

'''Sybil:''' Just stop thinking like a husband and start listening like a copper, will you? }}

** Vimes does his best to defy this trope in ''[[Discworld/Thud|Thud]]!'' where he makes it his duty to return home in time to read "Where's My Cow?" to his son, no matter what else job-related might occupy his attention at the time.