You mean you don't beat your wife with a stick? Next thing you know you will tell us you allow her to drive and vote. You probably got one of them educated ones who gets all uppity.(j/k)
I been married to the same woman for 26 years,(I know that isn't long but sometimes it feels like it) I really think that when you marry, that person becomes an extension of you. So treating them like chatel property not only demeans them but us as husbands.