"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> On Sat 16 Aug 2008 08:01:12a, Mocassin Joe told us...
>
>> Before my mother passed away I asked her for her landmark stuffed
>> mushroom recipe. She gave it to me on the condition, "you can never
>> give my recipe out". I agreed.
>>
>> Now my wife has decided, that she is in charge of making this recipe.
>> She looked it up in my personal cookbook. What she doesn't know is that
>> I left out a "secret" ingredient.
>>
>> Naturally the dish doesn't come out as expected.
>>
>> What should I do??
>
> First, stop making a mountain out of a mole hill. Your wife *is* family,
> isn't she? Logically, I would think your mother meant outside of the
> family, or to the masses. Fess up to your wife and let her make them if
> she wants to.

Wives are property.