[s1artibartfast]

It confusing because one part of the wife/life pair makes no grammatical or logical sense, as shown below.

>I can't speak about your (wife), but in my (wife), people who say this are the people who personally enjoy taking advantage of my nature, and my "overly considerate behavior" is only pointed out when someone else seems to be getting benefit at the expense of my (wife); i.e it's a statement of selfishness.

err, what?

[dredmorbius]

Rewrite as "in [the case of] my (w|l)ife", which would then cover both expansions, "wife" and "life".