I need to ask my wife first

The other day, a friend asked me if I would like to join him to do something, and my immediate response was what I have heard many of my friends say: "ah ha ha I need to ask my wife first!" How many times have you heard guys joke that they have to check with their wives before they do something? Quite often, if your experience is anything like mine! But even as the words came out of my mouth, I realised, hey I actually do need to ask my wife first. Not because she'll scold me if I don't, but because I actually genuinely value her view. I have a wise wife. She is sensible. She remembers things that I forget. She thinks about things in a way that gives me a different perspective. This latter point is especially important for me. My whole family knows this: Daddy (me) is good at thinking fast and visualising clear paths to the objective. I'm not necessarily fixated on a step by step path, and I like to think I'm pretty good at connecting the dots of incomplete ...