mommy dearest?

Here's a hard-hitting question courtesy of CNN:

Do you mommy your husband?

The article describes women who style, feed and even bathe their husbands. (And no, that last one isn't as hot as it sounds. It involves back-washing.)

An excerpt:

Women find themselves mothering their husbands because of societal pressures to be the ultimate woman, says Pepper Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.

"We've been taught that the way to show love is to do for others," she says. And, according to Schwartz, some women believe that the more they nurture, the better a woman they are.

Granted, no one wants to take care of their significant other to the point of a parent-child relationship. But where do you draw the line between compassion and babying?

And ladies...is there any kind of maternal role that should extend to romantic relationships?