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- Etymology
- Changes after marriages
- Related terminology
- Termination of the status of a wife
- Legal rights of the wife
- Exchanges of goods or money
- Changing of name upon marriage
- Childbearing
- Differences in cultures
- Antiquity
- Western cultures
- Historical status
- Contemporary status
- Women's income affects the dynamics of heterosexual love relationships
- Asia cultures
- Hinduism
- Buddhism and Chinese folk religions
- Japan
- Wife in Abrahamic religions
- Wife in Christianity
- Wife in Islam
- Wife in Judaism
- [[Rabbinic Judaism]]
- [[Hebrew Bible]]
- Expectation of fidelity and violence related to adultery
- See also
- References
thumb|235x235px|''The Merchant's Wife (1918) by Boris Kustodiev
A wife (: wives) is a woman in a marital relationship. A woman who has separated from her partner continues to be a wife until their marriage is legally dissolved with a divorce judgment; or until death, depending on the kind of marriage. On the death of her partner, a wife is referred to as a widow. The rights and obligations of a wife to her partner and her status in the community and law vary between cultures and have varied over time.