It's stressful to always be right. You have to worry about convincing others that your point of view is superior to theirs. Plus, there's the time crunch that comes when everyone discovers your infallibility and constantly seeks out your advice. Then you have to decide whether to charge a fee for your advice, which creates a host of other problems such as how to file it in your taxes.
Luckily, there's pregnancy. With pregnancy, if you are a husband, you need not worry about the downfalls of being right, because you are not right. You are wrong.
Being wrong is easy. All you have to do is memorize these short sentences:
- I must have made a mistake.
- On second thought, you are absolutely correct.
- I don't even know what I was thinking.
- Thank you for setting me on the right path.
- I regret that I was such a jackass.
And of course:
- My bad.
I'm happy to have the break from always being right. In fact, I'm considering never being right again, as long as that's okay with my wife.
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You should know the same applies to labor and delivery nurses. If they tell you to do something your wife promptly asks you not to do, it was your fault (not the nurse's).
Dan, it's not that you're wrong...it's that Julie is more right!
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