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In reply to the discussion: Men would never tolerate it. [View all]Irish_Dem
(55,691 posts)I am a retired mental health professional.
And early in my career I provided all kinds of crisis and emergency services.
Sometimes a husband would bring in a wife to have her committed to a psych facility
because the husband said she was crazy.
So of course a license professional has to do an intake to evaluate the situation.
Some times the wife was perfectly sane and there was some kind of money motive going on.
For example one criminal type husband who was in legal trouble had signed over all his
assets to his wife in the hopes of sheltering the money. She then turns right around and files
for divorce, claiming all the assets as hers.
He is furious and wants her institutionalized and declared "insane."
The wife was smart as whip and perfectly sane when I talked with her.
I tried not to laugh when the husband insisted she be pink slipped.