true Barb ....
My wife is kinda prone to getting a little OCD when she feels overwhelmed ... ive never laid down an ultimatum about it, rather I tell her to sit down in front of something else. its effective in breaking that cycles that get things broke.
she may protest a bit, but in the end play of the game I often hear "thank you, you were right" as she looks upon the past crisis in hindsight. Theres a difference between guidance, and enslavement.
Yeah we are only at the three year mark, but we know we chose each other in spousal roles. I wanted a wife, she wanted a husband.
If we wanted robots as some seem to, parts can be had from Digikey.com so we can build em.
Seems the wife in the mentioned in the OP should take up electronics engineering.
I think I did well, Lord knows Ive walked away from an alarming number that wouldn't have been as fruitful. So numerous that statistical computations leaned toward impossibility.

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