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

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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:07:20 -0400
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Sometimes, so don't we all.

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Subject: RE: Getting more off topic --> RE: Work vs marriage Author: "Boivin; Patrice J" <BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca> Date: 6/1/00 11:06 AM

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

No disrespect meant, I think out loud too much.

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


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

es
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 starin= g
at that

        line, trying to decide in what way it was disrespectful, and I ca= me
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 on= e
of these

        is more clear as to whom I'm talking about: 1) the wife 2) Blaih= in

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