Permit me to chip in my tuppence about women's fights.
When my wife and two daughters were about to kill each other and I tried to reestablish peace, then all three jumped at me and accused me for causing the fight. They put through a meat grinder. That's when I learnt to keep my mouth shut and just to scratch my head in bewilderment.
About my younger daughter: around age 5, she wanted to marry me. Around age 7, she wanted to become a doctor to take care of daddy when I grow old. At age 15 1/2, I was the devil personified. But once she reached 30, she admitted that dad is really not so stupid, and she started giving me again hugs. And so the story goes.
Already with my first wife, being ten years younger while my second wife is almost twenty years younger than I am, I learnt that a man can never win an argument with a woman. Both wives are holding master degrees from universities and have professional jobs, but a woman will always be a woman. They can have a physical fight, but soon they will again hug each other.
While I was married with my first wife for only one year, we actually had lived together for five years. After our divorce, we spent two months vacationing in Europe; and we spent the next Christmas with her parents who had no clue that we were divorced. I still remember her last words when we finally split: she was jealous of my would-be second wife because she has straightened me out, and my second wife would have it so much easier with me. Right. While it I took me six years to get re-married, my second marriage has lasted already fifty years.
I have learnt my lesson. When my wife screams and yells at me, then I just give her a hug and say that I love her, and that reestablishes peace.
My younger daughter's family returned today from a mini vacation in Las Vegas. At this moment, my two daughters are driving my wife to LAX where she will join a group for a pilgrimage to Eastern Canada. This is the first time that she travels by herself because I am getting too old.
When she returns, my older daughter will fly to Australia to see friends. Flight is free with frequent flyer mileage, and staying with friends is also free. Then in November, my wife has already booked a flight to Rome, joining a group of pilgrims that includes participating in the general papal audience. All four of us had done so in 1990 to see Pope John Paul; in 2010 my wife and I joined the general audience of Pope Benedict; and in 2016 we did so to see Pope Francis. This time I quit. At almost 90, I can't take anymore the long inter-continental flights. I had enough.
@Paulina I sent you a private message for which you sincerely thanked me. And now I say in public, "Stop it!" (i.e., Not just for one queen)
@hollydolly Please do me the favor and ignore what Paulina just said.
I had enough family quarrels to know that there has to be an end to it.
….. I was cutting Mo. scrub
