RE: Wives....
Many years ago when we were first married, I asked my wife to sit on the back of my motorcycle, she did after some protest, but before we got into second gear she screamed to get off!
So I have at last given up the motorcycles and started flying, but there is no way I'm going to ask her to try flying!
She does support my flying though, - gets me out of her hair for a while, and she can go shopping.