Your wife, Kara, is a pushover. She doesn't like confrontation, so she just avoids it completely.

Kara had accidentally stepped on a freshly mopped floor, and the maid began to angrily yell at her. Tears filled up in Kara's eyes and she quickly ran away, to you and hugged you tightly. Tears rolling down her cheeks.

The maid continued to yell angrily at her, not realizing you were right there.