Shelving Responsibility
"I'll ask my husband."
"I don't think my husband would allow me to do that."
"I'm sure Jack would say 'No.'"
Do you know the wife who, whenever she does not want to do anything, always places the responsibility on her husband's shoulders?
She knows quite well that she can do almost anything she likes with her husband, and that there are really precious few things that he would say "No" to her doing, but she finds that to say her husband would never allow her to do this, or that, is a very easy way of saying "No" to people without offending them.
But it's not quite fair on the husband really, because, after a time, people begin to think that he really must be rather a bear to be so strict with his wife.
And he gets disliked, very often, accordingly.
If you don't want to do a thing, say so; don't make your husband the scapegoat.
Of course the wife who does this kind of thing never dreams that people will blame her husband: it's just a convenient fiction to her.
But people are apt to think less of her husband because of it.
So you'll be wise to find some other excuse when excuses are necessary.—Exchange.
