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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Clearly you have an interest in mental arm wrestling and feeling professorial in explaining OR and wanting to feel a need to come back.  That said, you neglect basic human nature.  There was no love of work prior to all of this from the husbands part. Suddenly he has no more time to set things up to lead to making the baby.  Now there is a baby there suddenly is no more time?!?  Plus much of his work can be done at home but is not.  In this day and age we all know a lot can be done barring certain professions.  So nanobrain, the least assumptions that makes sense is what most have been insinuating all along.  And yes we agree that there are fundamentally misaligned priorities going on.  But it makes no sense that its suddenly pure work.  Its an escape and it's not innocent and it'll lead to something unfaithful.  If you need help in figuring out how that plays out just post your question to me.  Plus don't feel you're impressing me with your definitions.  Its called Google and Wikipedia.  Anyone.can copy and paste.  As for thinking logically, search engines aren't quite there yet.  Sorry.[/quote]

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