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Re: NOW challenge to PK

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From: Scott A.Renner
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 00:00
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>>>>> At 23:37 10/9, holzman@xochi.tezcat.com (Daniel B. Holzman) said:
> 
> Of course, the question I'd like McCartney to answer is what this
> marriage looks like when the PKer comes home and announces he's taking
> back his leadership and his wife tells him she's not willing to follow.

I'd like to see the official answer to this question myself.

The bottom line has to be this: if she truly won't follow, then she doesn't
have to.  He has no way to compel her; he can only persuade.  Indeed, all
of the legal forms of coercion are effectively reserved to her.  She can
tell him to change, or be divorced; she keeps his children and his
paycheck, he's out in the cold.  He can make no such credible threat.

I don't imagine that PK spends much time discussing this worst-case
scenario, in part because it doesn't often arise.  It appears that the
great majority of PK wives *like* the new arrangement.

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From: Scott A.Renner <sar@nym.alias.net>
Subject: Re: NOW challenge to PK
Date: 1997/10/10
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