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I envisioned us as hard-core academics, reading passages from Joyce to each other while I put together a fancy dinner of organic rutabaga soup with apple crème fraîche swirls on top.

Could she be any more pretentious? I'm surprised she was able to find any men willing to put up with her self-important pomposity.

[Mr Rogers]

while I put together a fancy dinner of organic rutabaga soup with apple crème fraîche swirls on top

Any real man who came home from work and found that garbage on the table would shout, "Woman of the house! Do ya take me for a rabbit who can live on watery weeds? Feed that slop to the hogs, and break out the steaks!"

Or, "You'll get no beef from me until meat's back on the menu!"

Of course, a man who goes 3-4 years unable to find a job isn't much of a man. But she doesn't deserve one, either!