What if he tossed around apostrophes where they ought not to be?
I’m gonna need more info.
Never.
My husband and I once had a huge outdoor party. As guests arrived I would take them aside and plan a short story to have fun with my hubby. The guest would tell a story leading hubby to ask the question “who was that?”. They would all answer the same name. I loved watching from a distance. Embarrassing? Maybe. Humiliating? Not really? Hilarious? Oh yeah.
“wive’s”?
While I was going to St. Ives,
I saw a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks.
The wives wive’s sacks each had seven cats.
That’s about it.
I’m not a wife, but assuming that wives have more loyalty to husbands than the average chick does toward a close friend or a boyfriend. So I have tried to intervene when someone was running down a sibling (it was her ex boyfriend), a boyfriend (there is probably video of us getting banned from a nightclub because of me standing up for this guy because he didn’t want to be videoed and I knew they were going to video us and we had to carry all our stuff out with people threatening us, it sucked!), another boyfriend who was involved with a criminal gang (wow was that ever a mistake! lol I should have kicked him out back in the early 1990s oh well) and my dad, who in retrospect had done many of the bad things that people had accused him of that I had been in denial about, and so I responded improperly by trying to show loyalty toward him. Various mental health and law enforcement people have suggested that I am very, very stupid for showing loyalty toward any person. I don’t know why they say that. Suffice to say that I’m often confused.
So, what, are we talking about the wife of an undercover FBI agent or something?
Why not ask Jill this directly?
People do things you think are funny,
because of the love of fame and money.
Depends. Did he do something stupid to get ridiculed for?
Seriously, though, I would expect my husband to defend himself. He’s a grown man.
Of course she wouldn’t stand by idly. Somebody muscling in her job would tick her off. ;-P
Why are you asking this question?
“Would any of you stand idly by while your husband was ridiculed, embarrassed and made to look like a fool?”
Am I the only one that thinks most TV ads now lack any white men or if there, ridiculed, embarrassed and made to look like a fool?
No, I would not. I respect him and besides, he wouldn’t just sit there and take it. He can take care of himself and give as good as he gets.
Is this you, Jill?
Ex-wife here.
If the husband is right, then you run interference for him with whatever you have in your bag of tricks to get the job done.
If the husband is wrong and the person attacking him is also wrong, as long as your family, yourself, or your community are not harmed (by his viewpoint), you attack the person attacking him.
If your husband is wrong and the other person is right, your job is to not get in the way of him learning something, but to also not let him be harmed. There is a fine line between humor and sarcasm, and its the same line you will be dealing with here. Humor is ok, sarcasm is not.
If you have no idea of what the heck is going on, go do something outrageous (and fun) to draw fire onto yourself (and provide a distraction) and see if he takes up for you.
Don’t expect a wife you refuse to defend to take up for you.
Context is everything. But if this is a personal issue, and you have to ask FR…you got bigger problems.