I think it got onto a tangent about assertiveness.
I think the point is if you want to make your employer happy, and you are in a negative situation at work -- DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. Along with that, your wife will probably be happier that you are taking action versus giving up, and doing nothing about it--OR making it worse.
Is that correct (that that was your point for discussion, or were you more interested in talking about assertiveness/manning up being strong and virulent), Coach?
Sorry if I inadvertently steered the discussion off course. But Coach's first post on this thread does seem to say to me that women find assertiveness attractive in men. As to what I should do given the hypothetical situation: given what I know now I'd probably coldly replace the business partner or quit the partnership and ask for my money back along the lines of what Harrier wrote and this is not one of Coach's listed choices. BTW I do not see marriage as a business partnership or an employer-employee relationship - to me it's basis should be a much deeper commitment and not simply the primal laws of attraction or state income tax or other such civil law. People marry several times and have children with many sexual partners or out of wedlock, have affairs, divorce their spouses and collect a load of cash while they are living with someone else and no one blinks an eye. But unfortunately that's the level it has degenerated to. Even DBing addresses marriage at this superficial "attraction" level.
