uxor-

(Latin: wife; spouse [female])

uxorious (adjective), more uxorious, most uxorious
Excessively submissive to or devotedly attached to one's wife; especially, in a submissive and obedient way: Mark's wife had him "jumping through a hoop" which indicated that she had complete uxorious control over him.

Camille had a uxorious husband who obeyed her every wish or request to do something.

Husband is on his back on a street so his wife can walk on his body to avoid getting her feet wet.
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Wife has her husband serving the meals.
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Wife has her husband doing the housework.
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uxoriously (adverb)
uxoriousness (s) (noun)
The character or quality of doting or an excessive submissive fondness of one's wife.

Philander, Uxorious


I once knew a gander

True to his goose.

He didn't philander,

Didn't seduce.

Hail, meritorious

Gander uxorious!


—Willard R. Espy in Say It My Way, 1980.
uxorium
A tax imposed on male citizens in ancient Rome for not marrying.
uxorodespotic
uxorodespotism (s) (noun), uxorodespotisms (pl)
A morbid domineering by one's wife: Jeff read about uxorodespotism and learned that his marriage was evidently not based on love or of partnership, so he decided to leave his wife as soon as possible.
uxorovalence
A condition of being sexually potent only with one's own wife but not with other women.