Guidelines for a better wife

The roles we choose to play in life can be very theatrical. Once the props are stripped out what is left? A woman in the role of a wife suddenly changes herself - she changes her identity by shifting her position. An image of a wife comes along with a set of requirements, to which society has commonly agreed to follow. Societies are different and they hold different images on such roles, however, the question is - what roles we agree to perform in life and what is the price we pay for that?