He's going to want to make sure she stays there being his serv...uh wife, though. Right now the kids are young and likely keeping her busy.

They won't always be young and when you've wrapped your whole identity up in motherhood, what are you when you're not needed for constant intensive mothering?

She's not going to be young forever either. And we all know guys like that tend to develop a wandering eye for younger women.

So what she'll be, is forgotten and cast aside with little but a basketful of broken and forgotten dreams to make her bitter. That sacrifice of maternal martyrdom gets rusty pretty quick. How many of those types do you ever see happy and fulfilled later in life? Not many. Most are bitter and full of regrets.

It'll be better for her because of all that money, provided he doesn't lose it all. And maybe she'll get lucky and he'll die young, but not so young that she just goes out and finds herself another Overs....uh, husband.

She has gone along with this bullshit all along, after all.

You are absolutely right about not needing to mention it. It reminds me of veterans. You always know who saw action and who didn't. Those who did rarely mention their service. They don't want or need to talk about it for status (but they often do in regards to working through the trauma of it) but those who didn't see action will often bring it up for clout.