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>>>>To protect is not to be responsible for. If my partner were attacked by a gang of thugs and I stood by and watched then I'd be failing her. If I tried, but they still got to her, I wouldn't be responsible - THEY would. Similarly, if she said she was going to walk home through the park at night, that would not be my responsibility.
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>>>First part I agree but the second part, yes it would be at least partially your responsiblity to make sure she gets home safely. You could go pick her up so she won't have to walk. I would be so angry at her for putting herself at such rick if she did that.
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>>Sure, but not if I'm in another city!
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>Have a friend pick her up.

Well that's just as much HER resp.

>Have her call a taxi and insist on seeing the receipt for proof. :)

And smack her if she can't produce it? That's like treating her like a kid. "Have you brushed your teeth? Let me smell your breath then."
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>>>It's not a bad thing to INSIST on some things if you love the person. If I thought there were greater then 0% chance for something bad happening, I would, and I wouldn't care if it upset her. I'd rather have her angry for awhile then to have her injured or worse.
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>>Agree. But no way am I responsible for her actions.
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>Sometimes you are, maybe not legally, but morally yes.

Never did I think "legally" was meant.

>>>>Now I said nothing about loving or honouring. OTOH I think it "dishonours" his daughter to "palm her off" to the next man who wants to take charge care of her
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>>>who talking about "palming her off"?
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>>W/o looking up the message he said something like "That would be her new husband's responsibility/duty/whatever", like "I've brung her up - now it's his turn to boss her"
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>Well I don't think he meant it literally like that.
>But I think he is has a point to some degree. Usually the wife takes on the man name. "Susan Anderson" may become "Susan Williams" aka "Mrs. John Williams" if she hooks with a John Williams. So, I can see where, logically,
the husband will become a "guardian" of her safety and well being.

That practice has always sickened me. I thought it was only people from 50s US sit coms, or old B&W films, or Stepford Wives that still did that.