Commentary for Yevamot 215:11

תניא רבי אליעזר אומר אין מעשה קטנה כלום ואין בעלה זכאי לא במציאתה ולא במעשה ידיה ולא בהפרת נדריה ואינו יורשה ואין מיטמא לה כללו של דבר אינה כאשתו לכל דבר אלא שצריכה מיאון

When Rabbi sent a pair of Rabbis to interrogate then,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To ascertain whether their refusal was in earnest. ');">²⁷</span> some women said to them, 'See your husbands are coming'. 'May they', they replied, 'be your husbands!'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., you are welcome to them. ');">²⁸</span> and 'Rabbi decided: 'No more significant <i>mi'un</i> than this is required'. Was not this a case of marriage?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'what not (but) that she was married', i.e., each of them was married to her husband, and, since a mere casual remark was nevertheless accepted by Rabbi as mi'un, it may be inferred that an actual marriage with, or a betrothal to another man may even more so be regarded as mi'un. ');">²⁹</span>

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