I think the story sounds legit. I rode the passionate bitcoin bull train before and I never let it get to that extreme, but I'm sure I talked about it to my wife at dinner a lot. The only difference was I making a shit ton off it. She loved that fact, but I could tell after a certain point she didn't feel like hearing about it much anymore. So I just changed changed the topic to what vacations we were going to take!
Dude needs to man up and realize he's gone overboard and put his wife first, she sounds like she's fairly intelligent.