She sounds like a catch! I'm glad she's rid of this pissy knot of unresolved job-frustration and death-anxiety, who thinks she's stealing water from his fields by living her life as if it's her own.

Seriously, though, if you're a guy who thinks of his wife as an accessory, or a junior employee, I can get how you'd feel entitled to direct her efforts. But this also feels like resentment that she has more career fulfillment, and doesn't need to keep proving her worth to herself; perhaps also loneliness that she doesn't share the same 'self-improvement' drive to make life worthwhile after logging soul-numbing billable hours all day.