Coach, you MAY be right but not necessarily. Her conflict may also be driven by something like (1) I DON'T want to be around those insensitive broken bozos but (2) I DO want to look like a "nice person" and/or "good wife" and/or "engaged mother", so I HAVE to. Kobayashi Maru.

We are possibly both projecting our personal experiences into Thinker's wife's brain. The more POVs, the merrier; grin.


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