master of his own house

A married man is a tenant in his wife's house.

 

It's her territory.

 

And as a woman she claims moral rectitude in everything.

 

A single man is master of his own house and is only nagged by next door's hungry cat.

 

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article4922052.ece