I wouldn't be happy if I had to support a capable adult. 'Wife' isn't a real job and neither is 'mother' for that matter.
"'Wife' isn't a real job and neither is 'mother' for that matter."
You're just plain dumb, aren't you?
Wow... You really don't think being a wife and mother is a real job? Then I don't know how to explain to you that it really is.
It may not be considered as "important" as the job of a man who is CEO of a Fortune 500 company, but it is a job. And if a woman is the wife of that CEO, she has to know how to entertain in the corporate world, because a lot of such companies interview both the man and his wife to see if they fit into the corporate culture.
The woman "keeps the home fires burning." She makes a home for the man and the kids to come back to. She carries a great deal of the responsibility for what kind of home it is, in terms of atmosphere.
When I was younger, I thought that the job of being a wife and mother not only didn't have very good working conditions, but it didn't seem to get very much respect in general, nor did I myself respect it very much. I didn't understand at all why some women really wanted that job and found it more fulfilling than working outside the home.
My ideas and understanding have changed in the intervening years.
Let me put it to you this way: If you had children, would you prefer them to be raised by your wife, or by some strangers in day care? Because while day care is definitely better than letting toddlers roam the streets, most folks don't think it's as good as being raised by one's own parents. Kids do need their parents.
One last dig, I suppose: If a man supports a woman, at least she usually voluntarily does the housework (well, in most cases). When I've been in relationships where I paid more of the bills (or where, like this one, I have supported the guy for nearly all of the last four years), the guy in question usually did not volunteer to do very much in the way of housework.
I have, most of the time, had to ask the guy to do something, even if it was something that really obviously needed to be done (such as taking out the garbage before it crawls away). And for some tasks, since he didn't learn them from his mother, I have had to take him step-by-step through whatever it was that I wanted him to do.
However, he can now make pretty decent tuna sandwiches. He can open cans and heat up the food. He will empty the dishwasher if I ask him to. He will wash and fold laundry. But he still doesn't know very much about cooking, though fortunately he will eat most anything I cook.
He does have low vision, which has been a nearly lifelong handicap, though he is very good with computers. He is now starting work as a medical transcriptionist (I work as one as well), which is a field in which I have met some other visually handicapped people.
Well, in my experience, a lot of men will do their own housework until a woman shows up... at which point it is frequently left up to the woman! ;p