In our custom a man is not expected to go down on his knees and knock his forehead on the ground to his wife to ask her for forgiveness or beg a favour.
'In our custom a man is not expected to go down on his knees and knock his forehead on the ground to his wife to ask her for forgiveness or beg a favour. But, a wise man knows that between him and his wife there may arise the need for him to say to her in secret: 'I beg you.' 'When such a thing happens nobody else must know it, and that woman if she has any sense will never boast about it or even open her mouth and speak of it. If she does it the earth on which the man brought himself low will destroy her entirely.' 'That was what my father told his friend who held that a man was never wrong in his own house.'