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do with his TVism. He will think of her as a nagging, ungrateful wife: "After all, "--he says, "I give her everything she wants, I never refuse her money. can't she reciprocate in this one thing?" And she says: "He does it just to upset me. He knows how sensitive I am to that thing and he insists on torturing me. He's cruel and ungrateful. After all, I am a good wife. I keep house, cook his meals, take care of him when he's sick..so, why can't he do this one little thing I ask; stop dressing." The E-Wife feels she has been cheated, especially if she found out about his TVism after the wedding. But in most cases, even if she was told about it before, she'll say that she never dreamed it was so much of an obsession. She was convinced that marriage per se would erase that silly desire of his. In other cases she'll even add jealousy to her grudge against TVism, especially if he makes a good looking TV. She won't admit it, but if by some miracle she is dragged to a TV party, she'll be green with envy seeing that hubby is the center of attraction and not her! It may sound incredible, but it does happen!!! She assumes that to be a TV means to want to change sex and is scared to death of the possibility that her husband will someday decide to buy a ticket for Casablanca.

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If the traits of the E-wife are intensified a teensy bit more we get the F-Wife. She is living hell for the Ꭲ Ꮩ . When she finds out, she literally hits the ceiling-- calls him foul names. and initiates a veritable Inquis- ition period for the poor guy. She won't think anything of telling the children that their father is a pervert. She'll spread the news among her circle of friends and paint for them all sorts of weird rites that "he makes me witness". She loves the exclamations of amazement among her girl friends and officially becomes a "victim" of that so-and-so of her husband. If he suggests a di v- orce, she'll threaten to drag his name through the mud in court and will actually proceed to do so. I know more than one case in which the TV involved was liter- ally run out of town because of the "revelations made at the trial by his wife". At no time will she show the slightest desire to understand or learn-any thing about TVism. She equates it completely with homosexuality and she'll positively refuse even to listen to pacifying words from a friend or even a priest or psychiatrist.

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