Life Lines: Six pasta bowls and domestic tyranny

Notes: The author describes her encounter with an anxious man, asking for her help, in a thrift shop who had been sent by a demanding wife to find six pasta bowls. "I started to wonder what kind of scolding was in store for this man if he dared to go home without a perfectly matched, nearly free, set of six pasta bowls. It got me thinking about my own experience with domestic tyranny -- equal measures giving and receiving -- and the variety of forms it takes. There's the classic My Way Is the Only Way, reloading the dishwasher reorganizing the couch cushions, rewashing the laundry because the right scent wasn't spun into the wash. Do these behaviours qualify as sins of pride and arrogance ?"

Subjects: Interpersonal relations - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; Marriage - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada