RE: Getting more off topic --> RE: Work vs marriage

I was surprised to see that usage of the term "wife", usually it comes = with
"my wife". But then you could say that's possessive.

No disrespect meant, I think out loud too much.

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	Subject:	Re: Getting more off topic --> RE: Work vs marriage

	At 07:36 AM 6/1/00 -0800, you wrote:


	>Why do some of you refer to your spouses as "the wife"?!  It makes

it sound


	>like you don't feel any attachment to her at all.

	>

	>I am a man, and I never refer to my wife as "the wife."  It is

	>disrespectful.

	>


	Not sure I agree with you on that. I spent several minutes staring
at that
	line, trying to decide in what way it was disrespectful, and I came
up
	blank ("Ball-and-chain", on the other hand...)

	"the wife" is a datum. Sure you could refer to your wife by name,
but none
	of us know you or your family. In my case, for instance, which one
of these
	is more clear as to whom I'm talking about: 1) the wife  2) Blaihin


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