This from an old hubby who married a little late for his generation, age thirty, lost his beloved, spent ten years as a widower, and married a woman I met in my teens as an undergrad: Build your wife into your life. Don't live compartmentalized. The poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren noted that you must often address your spouse by "indirection," to be sensitive, polite, and tactful, but that doesn't mean secretive. He just said the indirection part, and I added the rest. To the degree you can do that, it is all to the good.