Is replying to yourself as suspect as talking to yourself? I was curious enough and had some time to look around.
11 states, including WA. 2021, state number is from 2018 survey. The article makes it very clear that there are lots of downsides. But it’s an interesting thing. I’d never heard of it before. And if it could help at all with the current situation, hey.
Survey: https://law.lclark.edu/live/files/26911-50-states-victim-initiated-investigation
Good lord. I wonder if that member of Congress and his wife are still married!
I have to do all that stuff for myself, and cans of soup and sandwiches are well known to me. But this has reminded me of the classic essay, Why I Want A Wife. Let’s see…presto!
Clearly, I, too, need a wife!
These Totally Random Assignments, No Really, are starting to at least feel, um, Not Very Random.
I know it’s possible for these results to occur by chance, but have seen hints that knowledgeable people around there find it unlikely. Whether truly random or not, this is a bit much.
What are the odds that that case roars ahead at warp speed? I’ll have to think hard about that.
When I read the article, I found myself saying that one out loud!! It’s kind of his whole shtick really, and especially all of his campaigns.
The menacing is also aggravate-ing.
I put that into Goog Translate and chopped it up a couple of ways. The whole thing gets “slap face,” cutting “back” and separating the rest gets “whistle face,” and closing that up gets “pipe face.” Of course the rest of the internet says “Ted Cruz” - sorry, I mean “slappable or punchable face.” Thanks!
Drumpf - among many possible descriptions - IS an Aggravating Menace!
Cool! Then he can write another book, mebe. I’m envisioning something along the lines of a Hillbilly Eulogy.
Sadly, I lost 2 wives… I would gladly give you one, if I could find them. Kidding. But 2 divorces and being a single dad is enough for me. Don’t need a wife where I’m at today but would have loved to have had the happy family I always dreamed of. Still, my kiddo assures me that we’re doing great.
I am so sorry to hear of your losses. Glad you have the kiddo. Myself, I wouldn’t actually know what to do with a wife! But there are certainly benefits of “ownership,” or were when the essay was written. I’d like some of those!
Please understand, my former spouses are alive and well, I’m told. I just can’t find them. And believe me. The kind of wives they describe you don’t want. What you may want is your very own personal robot slave. Or maybe a life partner. But the 2 are certainly mutually exclusive! I really like the idea of life partner. And I have given almost everything to almost have one. Personal robot slave? 
Oh good! Glad to hear it.
I have no seriousness about the “wife” role described in the essay, at all. I respect it for what it is: a criticism of that role. Which ends with, Who wouldn’t want a wife? I could use help with some of those things myself. Couldn’t we all? Part of the author’s point, and it was my point. When those are the expectations, it’s a hell of a job! And where’s the appreciation and/or reward for the woman? In that era, it was just expected of women, as it still is, to do all of that and manage children and household too. All of this was intended as critique of all of that. Just to be clear.