[silent_jonny]

"How on earth, year after year, could a 'wife' no be aware of this behavior on the part of her husband?"

Maybe because she's too busy watching Oprah and Dr. Phil and Montel and Jane Pauley and Martha Stewart and a dozen ambush make-over shows to notice?

[gobucks]

"Maybe because she's too busy watching Oprah and Dr. Phil and Montel and Jane Pauley and Martha Stewart and a dozen ambush make-over shows to notice?"

You know what is scary? maybe you are more right than anyone would wish ... I can imagine how many women would simply close their intuition, because they simply don't have the stomach to face 'the truth'.