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To: D. Long who wrote (106051)	3/26/2005 12:43:25 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793717

Marriage includes a bundle of legal assumptions, one of which is that a husband is the legal guardian of his incapacitated wife. That it is family-values folks who are delegitimizing the husband's legal role in this is one of the more interesting contradictions.

To: D. Long who wrote (106051)	3/26/2005 1:12:13 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793717

It is objectionable on policy grounds to be second guessing spouses. I disagree. You are in a good marriage, but it's faulty reasoning to generalize from yourself. Marriages that are falling apart take very strange twists and turns. There's very rarely a bright line between "I do" and "I don't." I get calls all the time from people who are thinking about divorce, and change their minds once they realize that financially things are not going to go the way they hoped. Then there are the control freaks who would rather see the woman dead than let her go. The judge in this case has a bad case of "blackrobeitis." He's sick of it, too, no doubt, and doesn't want to hear another word. That's obvious. Just let her die and get her out of his hair.