Your wife should invest in skills / employability to the point that she can get a job with benefits (who cares about the pay). If you are worried about your job

Your wife should invest in skills / employability to the point that she can get a job with benefits (who cares about the pay). If you are worried about your job, I would recommend this first. If your wife can step in and provide baseline benefits and income, that frees you up for higher-wage contracting/consulting/entrepreneurship. Certainly don't get a house now. What if you need to move to another city for a job? You are obviously living below your means. That is a goddamn superpower in today's economy, which relies on people being under the guillotine constantly. If your wife makes you feel more uncomfortable about your collective economic security rather than provides a backstop, then, well, that's why wives are the #1 enemy of feminism. You and your wife should have a willingness to face good times and bad with a collective desire to work and be secure. Since you haven't lost your job yet, the time to get on this is now, to discuss possible uncertain economics with her to set expectations.