Reading some of the stuff on here gave me a headache. If I treated my wife the way some guys on here think they should be treated, I wouldn't have been happily married for 13 years with 3 awesome kids. Most of you guys have it all wrong. The reason our marriage works is because we both have equal say without me being stripped of my balls. My wife works and contributes to our finances, so she has equal say in what should be done with disposable income, savings, etc. There has never been a control issue in our marriage either. It's all about balance. If I have a poker night at the house or play poker out till 4 in the morning, then yeah, I suck it up the next night and settle in for a chick flick with her or eat out at a restaurant of her choosing. When there has been a bachelor party in Vegas or New Orleans with the fellas, I go. When there is a concert she wants to go to with her girlfriends, she goes. No over-possessive, jealousy issues going on here. Some of the "caveman" mode of thinking here seems to be nothing more than unwarranted paranoia.
While she was pregnant, I picked up lots of bonus points by helping out around the house with the stuff she normally took care. Stuff like that goes a looooong way.