Or maybe it's her unpredictability -- you just can't keep on leaving home, or minting earrings out of the exhausted vein of silver plate in the Irish-American foothills, or rehearsing the same old road show of wayward girls, harmful husbands, angry academics, suspicion of money, quarrels with the past, ambition and corruption.
When women were queried about the potential harmful impact of their husband's injection drug use, the primary fear was that he would get HIV/AIDS (36.7%), followed by the impact on income for the family (33.2%) and being a bad influence on their children (22.4%).
The only solution is not to act, and certainly not to do something so obviously harmful as sleeping with someone else's husband.
For instance, some men reported that their wives were distressed by the comments from the surrounding communities that their husbands were taking part in a harmful study.
In village schools and courtyards across Sierra Leone, our husband schools teach men about the harmful effects of rape, gender-based violence, teen pregnancy and FGM.
The story proved to be unsubstantiated, but nonetheless, my husband, who thought he was in the least harmful profession in history, now has to walk trepidatiously through the streets as a potential clown target?
According to Global Trade Alert, a database of restrictions on international commerce, Argentina now imposes more trade limitations deemed "harmful" than any country save Russia.Even before Ms Fernández's late husband, Néstor Kirchner, became president in 2003, Argentina was taxing farm exports.
Researchers found that compared to men in more equal arrangements, these husbands "are more likely to exhibit attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that are harmful to women in the workplace"..
Three years ago she raised eyebrows by attending a function with her husband wearing a "bioelectric shield", apparently designed to shield her from harmful electromagnetic radiation.
Ms. Melville's husband, who co-founded cyberrentals.com, explained to her that those snakes are harmful only to the insects they catch, but no matter.
In some areas of Africa, deeply rooted 'tradition' demands that local girls undergo FGM, and sometimes other harmful traditional practices (beading, breast ironing etc), if they are to gain access to a husband and the adult world.
