A Quick Complaint To Start The Week

I feel like this is something I've mentioned before, but I find it really creepy when people refer to their wives as "Mother".

Fortunately, it's never come up in real life, only in fiction. Colonel Potter use to say it a lot on M*A*S*H, and I feel I must have read it in some book recently for the thought to have come to the front of my brain again.

I guess it's the Oedipal aspect. She may be a mother, but she isn't your mother, so why call her that. It always bothers me.