From the vault... Hedy agreed to marry Joe Donovan on one condition. So long as he could support her, she would quit her job as a fashion designer and become his wife and homemaker. But, if he ever became unemployed for more than thirty days she would have the right to resume her old job, and he would have to become the 'homemaker'.
When that awful event took place he didn't realize just how drastic this change would be, until her mother took charge of his training.