When both are unethical, miserly and abusive, then wife and husband live together as zombies.
When the husband is unethical, miserly and abusive, but the wife is ethical, bountiful, rid of stinginess, she’s a goddess living with a zombie for a husband.
When the husband is ethical, bountiful, rid of stinginess, but the wife is unethical, miserly and abusive, she’s a zombie living with a god for a husband.
When both are faithful and bountiful, disciplined, living righteously, then wife and husband say nice things to each other.
Their needs are amply satisfied, so they live at ease. Their enemies are downhearted, when both are equal in ethics.
Having practiced the teaching here, both equal in precepts and observances, they delight in the heavenly realm, enjoying all the pleasures they desire.”
Numbered Discourses 4.54 6. Overflowing Merit Living Together (2nd)
“Mendicants, there are four ways of living together. What four? A male zombie living with a female zombie; a male zombie living with a goddess; a god living with a female zombie; a god living with a goddess.