Scott: Not to fear, either it'll work out or not.

I was into racing before my first marriage. Gave up the racing, but that didn't keep her satisfied. Got back into racing, but wife #2 didn't like it. But the marriage did not work out for other reasons.

But being the eternal optomist, here comes wife #3. Never been near a race track. But she agreed to see what it was like. OK, the first time I took her to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, we got to drive around at 60 to 80 MPH in our street cars for a couple of hours. But boy was she perceptive. At the annual USAC banquet she met Jeff Gordon (still too young to drink the wine on the tables) and said "That boy's going to go far".

15 years later, she is enjoying racing more now when we go to race than she did when we worked as officials. Racing has given her an endless list of presents for Christmas, birthdays, Father's Day, Saturdays (or any other day of the week when a new dodad is needed).

My best advice is balance. Make sure that your life as a family is balanced. Next, communicate.

Take care, and best wishes!