You know she would gladly accept the punishment and the pain...if only she felt that he was experiencing her pain...and suffering alongside her...such is the love of a woman...how may times have we all done it for our husbands...swallowed insults silently only because we know that our husbands are rendered helpless by circumstances and yet are fully cognizant of our pain...that one squeeze of the shoulder is enough to take on the burden of the world!