Hello Nancy,

My wife (and most of the kids) are too important to me to lower them to an acronym. I can type out wife just about as easily as DW, and it means more to me. Just like the way I say "my wife," rather than "the wife." "The" wife sounds about like "the" lawnmower, an object I am not real fond of, not a person I care everything about. Of course, I also don't use LOL as a period at the end of ever sentence either.

Color me old, and old fashioned...