No constitutional scholar or judge has ever questioned Americans’ right to skip their spouse’s annoying tasks. Has anyone had a great time during one of these horrific events? You're clutching your little plastic wine glass (Sheila knows a lot about wine!) and you're shuffling around like a weirdo - look, it's Mike's wife! No one wants to talk to you, and you don’t want to talk to them. They want to drink and talk about work, you want to drink and watch severance pay.

Sometimes it's a minefield because you have to pretend you don't know much about these people yet. If you could be true to yourself, you'd be happy to weed out some of them. But you have to be like a Rose Bowl float, spinning in mild weather and radiating impersonal kindness. never make me do this againyou said in the car going home.

So when Michelle Obama announced she would skip Donald Trump's inauguration today, I thought, good move. I bet Ballack isn't keen on going either, but he's on the mat and on a pension so he might have to compete. A corner of the internet is taken over by irrational Michelle Obama haters who think they have some red meat. specification! Tradition! Continuity of Government! But they lost the victory when they were reminded that neither Donald nor Melania Trump attended the last inauguration.

There must be some way for the think tank to play to its strengths. But how? It's like a theory, a possibility - no, a possibility--Shows up: Since Michelle didn't attend Jimmy Carter's funeral either, she must have been trying to avoid...her own husband. What are the chances of these two meeting somewhere else? The pieces fell into place quickly. Carter's body was present at the funeral but not at the inauguration, so it couldn't have been something she was trying to avoid. George W. Bush attended the funeral and will attend the inauguration, but Michelle and Bush liked each other. Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi were definitely at the inauguration, but they weren't at the funeral — do you see the pattern? this daily mail There's even a suggestion that someone came between the couple: Jennifer Aniston.

I doubt the Obamas have a good marriage, Michelle Obama can't stand Donald Trump and doesn't want to be near him. She attended his first inauguration because she had to, but if your spouse has been working at another company for the past eight years, you certainly don't need to show up to the damn old Family Week. To disrespect her right to stay home is to disrespect your own right not to play mini golf with your own Pete Hegseth on Saturday when you could be at Costco or sleeping under a warm blanket. Let's make it into the work life lexicon: next time you get one of those dreaded invitations, tell your partner you're going to have to be like Michelle Obama, then get up, enjoy your normal blood pressure, and talk as you see fit Way to spend three hours of your life.