I think you're 100% right. I wished I could shake your hands.

@ maureenodonnell:

I will agree with all those who said 'lying' is not in itself a bad thing: we all do, about something or other in our lives. Since Linda-english mentioned several adulterous but very good Presidents, I think a connection between the sexual life and the presidential performance of a person is not really believable. You may think he's a bad husband, and I may even agree, but that doesn't mean his political career should be over. Yes, in that respect, it would be much better if America became Frenchified. The French may be wrong about many things, but not about that.

No, I mean it. We now can tell Serbians from Croatians and Bosniaks, and there's much less difference between them. I'm sure just paying attention to Ossetians and Georgians and their mutual history will enlighten us.

I agree with achilleselbow that Saakashvili could have defused it all by granting independence. If he had done that, Russia would probably try to annex the two breakaway regions, but then this move could be criticized without any problems by the international community.

Very well said. I hope your efforts towards hubby as the stay-at-home parent will succeed. In my own marriage, we're both engaged in our careers, and both incomes are necessary, so we're having to use child care and family help; but just as in your case, this was our choice and we're happy this way.

@Parson Jim:

You're stereotyping the situation; housewife=bad is not something I see anybody here supporting. You're doing yourself what you accuse others of doing. Even the original post -- which could be read this way -- looks more like it's about the alienation of these women than about their choice to dedicate themselves to their home and the care of their husbands.

I don't see your point: "everyone, male and female, seems to agree that it is women doing the rejecting". Everyone? What? Isn't the topic that some men may have unrealistic expectations about the women they might get, and are therefore refusing the more normal ones? And this is not incompatible with women also rejecting men who they feel are angry towards women, as boreddcgirl points out (I agree with you, boreddcgirl, by the way). In what way is your post a reaction to boreddcgirl's?

Just remaining within personal experience, I must say I have seen women who rejected men because they were not like their favorite movie star. I can't say that their dialogue with their rejected ex-future partners went like the one you described with the man who's looking for Elle MacPherson, but that wouldn't surprise me a bit. Frankly speaking, I've seen people of both sexes rejecting potential partners because of trivialities of all kinds. What I ended up thinking is that many people of both sexes are out of touch with what they reallly need or want.