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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (55762)	9/23/1999 10:33:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

ok- but I won't march in your eugrief parade.

To: Rambi who wrote (55762)	9/23/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White	Respond to of 108807

Men who retire after years at one company go through very severe withdrawal, feelings of uselessness, a loss of identity. This is even more so in Japan, where men's identities become completely intertwined with the company, it is their refuge against unwanted intimacy, the problems of their teenagers, all kinds of things. When they lose it, they often lose more than that. And it's just as bad for the wives. They suddenly go from more or less running their own show to having a bored, morose, self-pitying, ill-tempered husband around whose former colleagues often do not even return his (usually frequent) telephone calls. The expression wives have for such a husband is a "wet leaf" -- that being the annoyance of a wet leaf that sticks to the sidewalk and you can't sweep off. These days, there are for the first time in history actually layoffs in Japan. Many companies schedule layoffs to immediately follow a paycheck, so the man has the option of going several weeks before telling his wife, only facing up to it when the monthly paycheck is about to be deposited (the wives are generally in charge of home finance issues).