Petty Troubles of Married Life, Part II by Honoré De Balzac

To the glory of women, let it be said, they care for their husbands even when their husbands care no more for them, not only because there are more ties, socially speaking, between a married woman and a man, than between the man and the wife; but also because woman has more delicacy and honor than man, the chief conjugal question apart, as a matter of course.

Axiom. -- In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.