Helpful wives are an important part of the brew team. (Especially here, since the team is just the two of us.) I had a boil over with a 2 gal extract brew once because I kind of got distracted by a big play UA had just made and was watching the replay. Our stove is on an island, so that sticky stuff ran over both sides of the counter and down the cabinet doors and onto the floor. I panicked and slid the pot off the burner too hard, which spilled more stuff. I had that syrup stringing from me to the pot, the floor, to the sink faucet and cabinets BEHIND me that were not even in the line of fire.
As I was trying to quietly clean it up before she saw it, she yelled from the back of the house, "Don't worry...I'm coming to save my kitchen." A woman's intuition....she knew something was wrong in the kitchen without my having to say anything.
ehh....come to think of it, there were some sizzling sounds and a scorched odor, so maybe it was her senses instead of her intuition.
Just a couple of years ago, she was a wine and margarita girl, and did not like any kind of beer. Now, she's a big homebrew fan and likes a stout as much as I. It takes awhile for non-beer drinkers to acquire a taste for a dark or real hoppy beer, so I am proud of her. She's usually the first one to sample a new batch, too.
Here's to all of the good wives, girlfriends, companions, on brew day! It is just one more thing to enjoy as a couple.