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Article: Laura Doyle throws the book at critical wives.(News)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- February 22, 2001
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"So there I was," says a woman I know well, "criticizing him for wearing sweatpants out of the house, to work, even though it was, you know, Presidents Day. . . . I re-evaluated the entire relationship. Can I really love a man who'd go out the door sporting an inch of hairy leg between the top of his socks (gray) and the bottom of his sweats (black) and not even notice?"
But yesterday, this same woman claimed she will never criticize her man's attire again, no matter how nerdy. She will not criticize anything about him, in fact, and really, you know, where to begin? His inferior job, horrible driving, erratic bill-paying. His weird way of loading the dishwasher: ...