Spouses are always doing little things "for each other's good." In the past I may have taken it upon myself to retire some of my husband's more-than-gently-worn socks (to all the TSA agents who were privy to the site of his big toe poking through in the security line: you're welcome).
MP Dunleavey writes in her Cost of Living column for the New York Times about another
case of marital editing, this one having to do with catalogs that (did not quite) arrive in the mail.