Message-Id: <10515.107457@fatcity.com> From: "Shockey, David" Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 14:29:36 -0500 Subject: RE: off topic --> RE: Work vs marriage This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFCC01.5B91A62E Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable How about "my spousal unit"? -----Original Message----- From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:BoivinP@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 10:37 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: off topic --> RE: Work vs marriage I have a simple question: 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. Also, why was it "the wife's flowers"? Don't you live in that house = too? Just curious, sometimes I wonder why people get married in the first = place. Peer pressure maybe? Maybe some men and women get married because they = want to fit in, not because they really care about each other for the long = term. Never mind the vows... Nobody seems to have picked up on this. I am a man, and I never refer to my wife as "the wife." It is disrespectful. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des syst=E8mes Technology Services | Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique=20 Maritimes Region, DFO | R=E9gion des Maritimes, MPO E-Mail: boivinp@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca =20 Ph: (902) 426-4774 ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFCC01.5B91A62E Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: off topic --> RE: Work vs marriage

How about "my spousal unit"?

-----Original Message-----
From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:BoivinP@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.= ca]
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 10:37 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: off topic --> RE: Work vs = marriage


I have a simple question:

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.

Also, why was it "the wife's = flowers"?  Don't you live in that house too?

Just curious, sometimes I wonder why people get = married in the first place.
Peer pressure maybe?  Maybe some men and women = get married because they want
to fit in, not because they really care about each = other for the long term.
Never mind the vows...

Nobody seems to have picked up on this.

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

Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. = des syst=E8mes
Technology = Services        | Services = technologiques
Informatics = Branch         | Direction de = l'informatique
Maritimes Region, DFO      = | R=E9gion des Maritimes, MPO

E-Mail: boivinp@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca <mailto:boivinp@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.= ca>