Achievement

A lot of people ask this question and I always wonder when some answer the following question in the following way -

Person A: What do you think has been your greatest achievement?
Person B: My wife, my kids, work.

Now really - is having a wife or kids achievement? Is it a feat? The Merriam Webster has the following definition for achievement:

1: the act of achieving : accomplishment
2 a: a result gained by effort b: a great or heroic deed
3: the quality and quantity of a student's work

Perhaps I am taking this literally - maybe what Person B means is that his family is his accomplishment because he has them in his life? OR that he has found them - really you find a partner, children come along. Having children is the easy part, but raising them to be a good human being - YES - I can totally see that raising children is a FEAT in itself.

I have asked this question to few of my male friends - and they have responded almost the same way. I was quite surprised. I always fail to understand men who talk about wives in terms of - 'She's the ultimate BOSS', OR , 'She's the ultimate POWER'. What does that mean? Is the relationship of a husband-wife that of a who is scared of whom? Are we not partners? Are we suppose to be afraid of each other or should one of us be afraid of the other? And then they turn around and say, thier biggest achievement is either thier child or wife or both!!! Talk about simplicity in life :) ha! Perhaps I do take this statement literally.