When they do, quite the opposite is usually true. She bought a nice place in Florida, plays golf and tennis, sails, doesn't look for life to be so cosmopolitan or dramatic. Unless you're a lawyer. Mine specializes in influence and advice, which I believe translates in English to bribery and corruption. If you're going to steal it, what better way than to use the law.
Control takes too much work.
Control is too constant for most men's taste. They get bored with a situation, as they would with a toy. In some unconscious way men sense this and it frightens them. In a way their behavior makes sense but a really feminine perspective could be used to everyone's advantage. The corporate and political powerhouses I've met are all terrified people.