To be a wife is to answer the call to be joined to one man for the rest of her life. She has much to give up - her station in life, her family, her name, her reputation and to find all these things in the man whom she will marry. Leaving and cleaving is different for a wife than for a man.To leave your father and mother and be joined to a husband requires - great caution. So, be sure the man you marry is the right man for you.