Is rejecting non sense enough

I was posed the question today as a part of the event Mr. and Miss Intellect - "Would you mind if your wife earned than you?"
The answer i gave was that such ideas are socially prevalent notions which were just pure non sense and i do not subscribe to them.

What i missed in my opinion was the most important thing. And that was the role love would play in this. The love should be strong enough that such trivia never arises. and such love would require a whole lot more than just emotinal attachment. it clearly needs the melting of the self.

the same holds for most ideas that are propagated in society. the complete answer is not critical intellection alone. critical intellection would lead to complete isolation from the way society functions and the values it defines. we have to go one step further. reject the non sense(e.g. the attitude that one should be more socially important than ones wife) and live the greatest positive feeling(love).