What does it mean to dream about wife?
A wife in a dream often reflects a quality of partnership in your life, or a side of yourself, rather than a literal forecast about your marriage.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
Freud would read the wife through the dreamer's desires and tensions within intimacy, often shaped by earlier attachments. He would ask what wish or worry the figure quietly stands in for.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see the wife as a carrier of the anima for a man dreamer, an image of an inner feminine partner, or as a reflection of the actual marriage. The figure can reveal the state of an inner and outer bond at once.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties the wife to your waking feelings about the relationship, its comfort, its friction, or what you hope for in it. The mood of the dream usually mirrors a real concern.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The wife in myth appears as the patient weaver awaiting return, the loyal queen, or the partner whose faith holds a household together. The figure tends to embody devotion and the testing of trust.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Brewer).