A wife should love his husband and speak the truth. This kind of behavior of a wife brings happiness to the family.
Chanakaya said the love between husband and wife is the most successful reason behind marriage. He said the real happiness of a wife lies in the serving of her husband and it is the Swarag of the wife. He said a successful wife is that who is honest and clever.
The real wife is that who is clerver as well as Pavitar (honest to her husband). She loves her husband and speaks the truth.
A woman who observes fasts without the tacit consent of her husband reduces his longevity. She is condemned to eternal hell!
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
She is a true wife who is clean, expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.
A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.
Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.