{Shaft voice}
Damn right.
The wife!
The wife!
L’chaim!
Come on. You’re among friends here. Stop suppressing. Share.
Tell us how you really feel. 
( If it is any consolation at all, you just fucking nailed my marriage with that rant. Props. )
Cartooniverse
At this time, I should probably point out that I was totally joking with the above. I’m actually in a great marriage with a wonderful woman who laughed when I showed her this, before she whapped me upside the head. Even so, I actually feel kind of bad about having gone quite that far for the laugh. I quite often find Mrs. Fresh’s interest in me about as straightforward and explainable as the Voynich Manuscript.
Oh. Man. Okay, so what’s that Whooshing sound I suddenly hear in my office?
Apologies for the misunderstanding. Glad she’s fond of you. And stuff.
No sweat. I should have qualified that in my first post. She is pretty cool, and I’m not just saying that 'cause she told me she’s keeping tabs on this thread, and if I talk any more shit about her, she’s going to wait 'til I’m asleep, cut my critters off, and sew them on my back.
Really!! I luv ya’, honey 
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I call my husband ‘da Hubby’ because I’m on a forum where several of us posters have husbands with the same name, and it just stuck.
I call my husband ‘da Hubby’ because I’m on a forum where several of us posters have husbands with the same name, and it just stuck. It’s not meant and never will mean disrespect.
(A lot of people have expressed this sentiment in this thread (with references to chattel and so on); I’m using Broomstick’s version as an example and not picking on her specifically.)
Oh, come on! Talk about semantic nitpicking. So none of you ever talk about “my mother,” “my aunt,” “my sister-in-law,” “my boss,” “my doctor,” “my lawyer,” “my neighbor”? “My brother, my captain, my king,” for the Tolkien geeks?
In this sense, “my” doesn’t indicate literal possession as if the person is your slave. It means “this person has the named status in relationship to me.” It’s called the genitive case, not an ownership contract.
On the other hand, I think it does convey an emotional sense of belonging. I belong to my husband just as he belongs to me.
I know the OP can be a dunderhead, and although I personally don’t care for “the wife,” those of you who want to use it with your spouses can have at it with my blessing. But come up with a better reason for avoiding “my wife,” huh?
Scarlett
who loves HER husband with the burning fire of a thousand suns, but also owns a T-shirt that says “My next husband will be normal”
She read my post, she read my post!
Seriously though, you have a good point. I guess it depends on the tone, and the culture. Regrettably we here south of the equator can be rather possessive at times, so I tend to get a little pedantic on the subject.
Can’t believe that nobody has said “'er indoors”
::Arthur Daley voice:::
I’m guessing it’s because they realize how incredibly annoying “'im indoors” and “'er indoors” is.
If I absolutely despised “the wife” I’d soon be getting “the divorce”. 
In one particular long-term relationship, whenever some (usually too-nosy female) person would ask why we weren’t married, my answer was always “I’m waiting for something better to come along”. End Of Conversation. After 14 years, something did
FTR, I did propose at one point. The rejection of said proposal was the beginning of the end.
Back to the drive-by OP, my preferred term for She Who Is Adored is “Good 'Ol What’s-Her-Name”. She has no doubt about how I really feel, and I think that’s the point. If you’re insecure about the relationship, little shit like this will irk you. But I can in no way understand getting worked up about what other people call each other.
My husband called me a disease once at a family party (you have to know him and his sense of humour to understand where this would have come from - I laughed out loud when he did it). I still bug him about it, saying I hoped that the people there knew him well enough to know horrible he is.
Just one point of clarification: Are your names Chris and Siobhan, respectively?
Yep, he’s Chris and I’m Siobhan.
C’mon, “The Wife” is a title. It indicates she’s acting with the full authority of Her Office.
“Zak, can you go out tonight?”
"Dunno, let me check with the Wife. I think we’re having dinner. "
“Zak, where are you guys registered for baby stuff?”
“Dunno, let me check with the Wife.”
Similarly:
“So, Rummy, can we invade somebody this week?”
“Dunno, let me check with the President.”
“So, Majority Leader Hoyer, how can we be spineless and ineffective this week?”
“Dunno, let me check with the Speaker.”
See?