[shbox]

OR...family guy doesn’t have the same desire to waste money that he’d rather spend on....food - birthday gifts for the kids - school supplies....

Oh puhhlease, you don't know this guy. He hates his wife with a passion. And its because he has been reduced to a gravelly little boy. He would leave in an instant if he had the balls. He sits around and daydreams of playing poker with the guys but he starts to cry because he knows the wife won't LET him. We have tried to council him. Not to make him leave, but to try and get him to be the man for a change. He has accepted his whippedness and hangs his head. He hates his life.

[Scotswife]

That is too bad if you paint an accurate picture.

The only time my husband asks my “permission” for anything is to give me a cue to bail him out of an invite he doesn’t want to accept.

That’s my cue to say something like “oh! remember honey? You’re mother is coming to visit tonight?”

[shbox]

...in other words, his wife is a big ole bully.