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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one could be.  If you loved your wife youd 1. be at home as much as possible (including arranging work to accomplish this), 2. youd be into your own DAUGHTER.  Believe it or not microbrain, we're in agreement.  I suppose youre last post was a "disagree to agree" statement. [/quote]

Since you seem to be projecting with the "microbrain" comment, let me clarify for you: Occam's razor is a principle of parsimony that states that, among competing hypothesis, you should select the one with the fewest assumptions.

Based [i]solely[/i] on OP's explanation that husband works too much, you concluded that the "most likely" explanation included that: (1) the OP's husband was avoiding his daughter; (2) that he was secretly not at work but in fact handing out with co-worker friends; and (3) that he was working on an affair.

You did precisely the opposite of what Occam's razor instructed you to do with the available information: You substituted the simplest explanation for one that made unnecessary assumptions.

So let's be clear that I am in fact disagreeing with you. And I'm not disagreeing with you just for the sake of disagreement: I think OP has a legitimate concern about a husband who is a workaholic, and its unnecessary and unhelpful for people to make up new problems, like that he is secretly hanging out with his friends instead or working on an affair, since OP provided absolutely no information indicating that such was the case.[/quote]

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