Your wife should do more than open a store and some time follow you.

they should replace Ingredients and soul gems in your houses once a month.

also you should able to change what they are wearing by talking to them.

and what about kids why can't I have some.

also if they own a stall there should pop a stall there so when you visit your wife stall you should see her there instead of in the bloody house

Get out the house sheesh

and adoption should be nice you know

Nifty idea.

Marriage perk tree?

that will be a small marriage tree

To be released with Hearthfire, the PoH DLC!

How would you gain experience? Lovers comfort overload?

Mmmmm....I can just picture Lydia toddling off to the Drunken Huntsman to pick up Dovakhin's weekly supply of mead and venison.

Great idea.

"Good evening dear! Your husband is home from a day of questing and slaughter!"

"By the Nine! You smell like it! I'll run a bath for you..."

"Ah so all my scavanging in Dwemer ruins wasn't wasted! We have indoor plumbing!"

"Yes but I still can't get THOSE stains out of you loin cloth! I shudder to think what you get up to when my back is turned..."

"Oh don't start this again! Besides what was that guy from Belethors general goods doing in here just now?"

"Errrr... Dropping of the groveries dear..."

"Don't DEAR me, he's in here so often with 'groceries' you must be feeding a village! I'm out day and night getting arrows in the..."

"Here we go again..."

*fade to following day*

You wear down your wife into submission during yet another row, speech skill +1, although she disagrees...

Just to be sure was I the only one who tought that the Topic starter was refering to a "Skill Tree" for Wifes because of the "Perks" in the title?

Because that could be an option:

10 points: Your wife makes a delicous meal, while cleaning the house and getting your weapons polished.
20 points: Your personal store will make 25% more money.
30 points: With these new Crochet skills your wife is able to make slogans and emblems for your clothes.
40 points: When taking your wife with you on your travels you can now use the "Flash" ability, stunning enemies for 1 minute.
50 poins: If your wife is offered to Boethiah, you will get the option to marry two new women simultaneously.
60 points; You can now use the "Nagging Effect", you are now able to nag enemies to death in less than 10 seconds, can be used once every hour!
70 points: Your wife can now be used as a personal horse, travelling 50% faster!
80 points: You can now buy a pet Falmer wich your wife will take care of.
90 points: sixy-time now gives you dubble damage, a boost of 100 health and stamina for the next 24 hours.
100 points: Your are now able to sell your wife to Belethor. You will gain a sum of 1 million septims!

And if you have negative point's as soon as you walk in the door you get wife aggro and she atk's you with a frying pan.

i support this^ we need modders on this now

lol more options for the wife would be hilarious, one day you'll come home and find out she was cheating on you. Then you can go into bar brawling mode and they punch each other till someone gives up. Having to go to the jarl to file for divorce.

omg. stop making me laugh... that is just too funny.

At least that would add some variety. Get married and I have to listen to the same damn dialogue, day in and day out.

No wonder I spend so much time adventuring, it is actually entertaining! Now if I could come home and regale my woman with the stories of my adventures, that would be a start.

Lol, and then you could get sent to prison for a stint, and/or assasinate the lover as a quest.

Whats this Jarl business? This Is Skyrim! I'll excercise my right to devorce the cheating wench AND the rooster she's riding via a sharp Fus Ro Dah and the Ebony Battle Axe i've got mounted above the bed. And if the gaurds want to stick their nose into it, they can sod off and all because i'm the bloody Thane!
More marital options would be nice. So would not sleeping on hay and animal skins when the spouse moves in, or randomly puting something sixy on to welcome you home. I'm sure a proper "Honey I missed you!" followed by a fade to black would make atleast a few of us grin. Shortly followed by the "Were the heck do you think you've been?! It's been six months! Do you even remember that your married when you walk out that door?!"
Hehee.. good times.