Someone claiming to be the wife of a rock star was complaining about this on Fandom Secrets recently. It's certainly something that's always bothered me and it's rife in any type of fiction where there's an SO that needs to be gotten out of the way.

Is it really SO HARD to forget the wife exists? If writers are going to be so canonically scrupulous as to include her then why do they throw canon out the window in order to demonize her? Bad, lazy, misogynistic writing.