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As a woman who doesn't do much, despite a graduate degree and the recipient of passive income of her own making, I take exception to the fact that I should be considered less than someone who has a career and runs around doing various things. Being "busy" is not a measure of kindness or intelligence or caregiving. Productivity is not the only, or even primary way to assess the worth of a human being. If this woman makes your father happy, surely that should be the only thing you care about?

I know this might be difficult for you to understand if you were raised to believe that sloth is for idiots and parasites. And I know I cannot change your mind. All I'm suggesting is that you don't let it show too much. Given her age, this woman will survive your father. If you're on good terms with her, and try to find something you can respect about her, then it will make all the future transitions - your father's retirement, his decline and eventual passing, various inheritances - easier.

And no, I am not your father's wife. I know a doofus will post "Found the wife!" in a moronically gleeful way.
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