[Carry_Okie]

You could have sex with everything but you were also expected to marry and have kids.

With all the social complications of children with distracted fathers.

[Verginius Rufus]

Socrates had a wife (who supposedly was something of a shrew) and children who were still young when he died.

When a young man asked Socrates if he should get married or not, Socrates told him, "Whichever you do, you will regret it."

Plato in the Republic (549c-550b) in his description of the "timocratic man" says his mother complains that her husband is too easygoing, "adding all the other complaints about her own mistreatment which women are so found of rehearsing."

Husbands may have ruled the roost in ancient Greek households, but evidently they had to put up with a lot of complaining from their wives.