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> I gave myself 9 hours per day to make progress on research. I gave the rest of my time to my family. I negotiated some exceptions with my wife (paper deadlines, conference travel, late meetings that others scheduled),

Wait, missing a crucial detail here - so his wife was a SAHM, or a PhD student as well?

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> As students, we’d have fewer responsibilities and being under the poverty line, we wouldn’t get caught up in materialism. It’d be us, our love for our child, and our professional dreams.

I guess, she was also PhD student.

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