The Recovering LDW

[Dom R]

mrs. c.:

you have the right to ask. period. Just has he has the right to refuse.
that goes for pretty much anything. you can always *ask*.
It's when you demand or expect him to comply, that it isnt right.


for smoking, though, you have a right, above and beyond the regular.

Even if you were fine with the smell.. your husband smoking, affects YOU. It's not just about him.
It affects the length of time you will have him as a husband, due to reduction of lifespan issues.
It affects the quality of life you will have with him, during the last years of his life.
It greatly increases the chance that you may have to spend his final years, as his nursemaid in one form or another.

His choice to keep smoking, is a choice that will affect YOU, DIRECTLY, as his wife, in the future.

Therefore, you have more than a simple right to ask him to stop for his own sake.

You have a right to ask him to stop doing something that is going to end up hurting you directly in the future.