Ever hear of “happy wife, happy life”? Of course you have. That saying is much too trite for me…but that doesn’t make it any less true.

To put it another way, the husband can be unhappy or frustrated without making the rest of the family unhappy (see “stuff upper lip”), but if the wife is unhappy, the whole household is going to be unhappy.

Of course we all want to do things our own way, to do what others can’t…but by the same token, we’re all human, and as such, certain psychological dynamics apply to the great majority of us all.