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Wife's the scapegoat. Saying "my wife wouldn't be happy with X" is just saying "I don't want to do X" while shunting the blame away from yourself.



You're obviously not married.


I'd say I don't have a wife, but there's a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that ;)

Seriously, people use the wife or parents scapegoat all the time. In high school my mother told me if I was at a party and being peer-pressured into something I didn't want to do, to blame her in order to get out.


Absolutely. I have friends like this.




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