Help! Our Guest Bathroom Just Exploded, and My Husband Is on a Mission to Punish the Culprit.

by Jenée Desmond-Harris

Dear Prudence,

The toilet in our guest bathroom recently leaked all over the floor. It turned out the cause was a broken beeswax toilet seal. Two days before the leak occurred, my husband and I had one of my friends, “Ronda,” over for dinner, and she used the bathroom while she was here. Ronda weighs over 300 pounds, and my husband is not only insisting that she was responsible for the cracked toilet seal, he also wants her to reimburse us for what it cost to have a plumber come out and fix it! There’s no proof that the seal gave out because Ronda used the toilet.
I am horrified my husband would suggest such a thing, and we have been fighting over it since. Logically, if she had broken it, the toilet would have leaked immediately. How can I get him to come to his senses?

—A Weighty Issue

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