eshark83

Hello Everyone, I've been lurking for probably about a year now. This forum has been a fantastic resource while I've been pursuing the path towards applying to a History PhD program. I have somewhat of a "dilemma" and would like some opinions regarding it. Neither my wife nor I are completely traditional students. I bounced around a bit in my youth and changed majors a bit before deciding to stick it out and pursue my passion, and she started school at 23. She's now about two years away from graduating with an elementary education degree, but I could be done (or extremely close to done) in one year. My question is regarding waiting to apply until she has completed her degree? How bad will this look when going through the application process? If it were a matter of just being apart for a semester or so I would say we could suck it up and stick it out, but another confounding variable is that we were just told we have fertility issues that could leave us without children if we don't see a specialist and get on it, needless to say we are doing just that. Luckily we have been saving for quite some time, I have worked through my degree and have savings enough that we wouldn't have to worry about living expenses or anything of the sort during my grad schooling, my only concern is how this waiting period will be viewed by admissions. My job isn't in history I am a supervisor at a publishing company working over their technical support team. Any thoughts on how to handle a gap like that? Thank you in advance!