There are several layers to this, but the most important one to understand is that modern women cannot be broken of the belief that they’re “doing everything.” Because having real domestic servants beyond cleaning ladies is too expensive/weirdly taboo, and most of them insist on “working,” they end up spending decent time most days on menial household chores.
While they’re doing this, they slowly start seething with rage about having to do it. Their minds search frantically for a target to place this rage. This is why you must be out of sight. The entire reason men slowly start making the garage their hangout is because if you’re in the garage, her cute little woman brain equates this with you also working, even if you’re not. As others have mentioned, the office would fix this as well. If you’re “at work” and that exists not at home, her brain gets to complete the loop “he is working.”
Like it or not, you can’t just sit down and watch a baseball game while she’s buzzing around doing dishes or cleaning the floors. You have to be out of her line of sight. Get a TV in the garage. My Dad took like 3 years to build our deck and I suspect he took his sweet ass time because it fulfilled this purpose so well. “I’ll be out working on the deck.” Then she just had to see him driving a couple screws back there and he could spend 3-4 hours smoking cigs, having a couple drinks in the garage.
I know a bunch of incels will come in saying your wife should be a silent slave or whatever, but this is the real world.