[Vermont Lt]

31 years now.

I would no more raise a hand to my wife or daughters than I would cut off my own arm.

People need to learn how to communicate. That means twice as much listening as it does speaking.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You sound like somebody who has been well ennobled by the Judeo-Christian culture. Probably due to your parents.

All the married men I have ever been really close to (father, brother, husband, son) regard their wives the same way: with respect as one adult to another, and a willingness to cooperate like civilized people, even through the rough patches, with the long horizon --- in fact, with God's Eternity --- always in mind.

You are a civilized man.