My wife fussed at me for two weeks to get an appointment. That might be a little thing, but maybe it is not so mundane. She makes our house nice. Our place would look like a warehouse if I decorated it. He opens the refrigerator, and there's the food.
Clean underwear appears magically.
Because of him, I don't have to work and put my kids in day care. Each situation is different, and a lot of people are in bad marriages. Men tend to isolate themselves and not have friends outside marriage. Waite makes use of the latest research techniques to measure what sociologists can codify about husbands and wives. They are similarly happy.