I can see how wihdrawing into your monks chamber away from the world to chase that ellusive contact to St. Helens while pounding brass for hours might have some effect in your marriage. Or waking up four or six in the morning to catch the grayline propagation.
I am starting to realise that we often replace busy work with other busy things. HAM for example. I have rediscovered walking and the outdoors and am happier for it.
My wife has never had an issue with my HAM hobby. She did tell me off after I fell out of a tree when trying to put up a new antenna. I obviously didn't learn my lesson though as I recently fell off a ladder while working on my shed. Now the lesson has been definitely learned. The last fall rattled me.
Why not both? :-)
This site [1] gives a better idea of the basics.
Here's an article on SOTA [2].