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

Depends on your social circumstance whether the term is respectful or not. In my wilder days, I often hung with a biker crowd. If you considered your wife/girfriend your "Old Lady", it was a term of highest respect. "Old Ladies" where respected by everyone, male and female alike. So it depends on your particular social semantics. Its hard to convey context over the email medium...

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX

• Original Message ----- From: "Boivin, Patrice J" <BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 10:36 AM 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 systèmes
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>
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Received on Thu Jun 01 2000 - 11:53:33 CDT