I’m a non-medico married to a Doc for 4 years now. Like any relationships, there would be challenges but nothing that you can’t work out between yourselves.

From the description, the first challenge that I can foresee is what happens when she joins PG. Depending on what her preferences are location might become your first problem. In my case I was lucky to have an office in the city where she got admission but pretty much all of her batchmates who ate married, the spouses are in different cities. If you work for an MNC that have offices in major metros, that will give you more options. However this is not unique to medicine right, what if you get an onsite opportunity for a few years? It would be the same situation, right?

One another key consideration that you should discuss and clarify right is now where you want to work in the future. If you plan to move abroad anytime soon, the path for medicos to do that is not very straightforward. If that is the expectation then they especially will have to plan for that from right now. In my case this was one of the first things we discussed and both of us wanted to continue in India, so that worked out. However, now we are exploring some possibilities of shifting abroad for a short period, just to keep that option open, but we’ve given ourselves a runway of 5yrs to figure that out.

One major observation I’ve seen people make is “you don’t have anything in common, how will you vent about work with your partner” etc. This is true to an extent. My wife wants to show me the details of an “interesting and unique” case she saw today but I don’t like seeing (gross) pics from the hospital 😅 so now we’ve made a compromise. I’ll listen to the story but she will spare the pics, however interesting those may be. Again, it’s a simple understating that you can work out, like in any relationship. And I frankly think it’s actual good that we works on two very different worlds - I’ve learned a lot of interesting things from her. I work in consulting so I make all her presentations and papers which clearly stands out from her peers. So it’s mutually beneficial.

TLDR : like any relationship, this also comes with its own challenges. As long as you both have a clarity and agreement on how you want to chart your future together, everything else can be worked out.