Yeah! What Paul might be able to slap his insensitive relatives with, if he were a real-world little person.

Of course, this being your story, this possible solution will be completely unavailable to him, I'm sure. ;-)

I can see Paul's point of view. In the real world, a middle-aged "little man" wouldn't like that kind of treatment from his full-sized wife, and he'd be right to feel that way. And, if the situation were reversed, a full-sized husband would be twice as unlikely to get away with that b.s., re: his half-sized wife!