The part that would be most likely to get to him was hearing his wife impugned.

No conversation on the phone at all, although we do hear your wife come in and ask 'Who was that?'

He got up quickly when he heard his wife coming back.

He hears his wife screaming and knows that something is terribly wrong.

He could hear his wife in the kitchen, beginning to prepare dinner.

From inside the room he could hear his wife struggling with the sea captain.

Heard his wife had already split after he'd been in country for about six months.

We could hear Peter's wife grumbling behind the kitchen window.

He said he heard his wife in another room of the apartment.

I never heard his wife or son exchange more than a few words with him.