In most places in the US, it's up to half of the duration of the marriage unless she's a total slacker.
nooby_mcnoob, Let's end our conversation on this topic, because my job is to make her happy and so is her job to make me happy as well. We are at two different phases of life when discussing wife/woman. My thoughts of a woman is very different from yours. I don't like your comment above, but I respect your decision. Its all good.
Usually when you feel you are wrong, you don't want to keep discussing. I sense that's what's happening here.
Possibly. But it's also very fundamental to who he is... Making it your job to make someone else happy is a signal of co-dependence and co-dependent people are very wary of having their worldview shattered.