Wife stepping on speaker wire

Use duct tape (preferably brightly colored) to tape the cables to the floor. Serves two purposes ... protects the cable, and makes it much easier to see, all in one !
That's what we used to do with guitar and mic cables when we were gigging and it works a treat. Hardwood, tile, carpet, duct tape does it all.

Is there some sort of spray you can get to spray the floor around your cables to keep your wife away ? "Wife repellant". (perhaps beer would do it).

I thought it obvious that my comments, like those of many others, were made completely in jest. I wonder if I'm the only one who got four ... yes, FOUR ... nasty emails from Mrs. Hughes ... LOL. Personally, I'm betting she steps on more than just speaker cables (oooh, boy, now I'm gonna get more hate grams from Mrs. Hughes ... LOL).

Hey lady ... lighten up.

As a women who's father is into audio and now who's husband is into audio I find that finding ways to include the cables into my decor is a challenge but one that keeps me on my toes litterly.

We're talkingabout a creature that doesn't mind putting up the lid, but resents putting down the seat. I put my cables under a rug, and after time they made a groove in the carpet beneath it. that isn't seen, so not resented, and technically it was a higher rise under that throw rug, made of the same carpet, bound at a shop, but worked for some reason. Maybe make a ramped trough, and toss her choice of rug over it.

Send her to her room with no dinner my wife would NEVER go near my system. Good luck.