This is a good example (the wife’s thinking process) of how people rationalize bad decisions (human beings are not RATIONAL beings – they are rationalIZING beings)
They come up with some reason that boils down to “this time is different” and then they make the decision that they were going to make anyway
When buyer’s remorse sets in (or decision-maker’s remorse) they will come up with some new bullshit to rationalize how the current result wasn’t due to their poor decision making process in the first place
