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View from the North 40: There is such a thing as stereotype reversal

My husband, John, and I do not have a stereotypical marriage. I hate to brag, but we are so much odder than that.

A friend sent me a message a few weeks ago to say that she would try to let me know when her husband was coming to my house to pick up something — “Hopefully he lets me know what he’s thinking ... LOL!” she wrote.

I replied with the obligatory laughing emojis, as if I totally understood where she was coming from. Chick solidarity and all. But, really, I wanted to type a long stream of question marks and say “What the heck is that like?”

Her husband doesn’t commu...

 

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