User blog comment:VaughanTES/A Major Fault With Skyrim./@comment-4057437-20121119062714

Spouses who are not followers are nearly useless. They won't go to see the Jarl with you or visit the Bard's College. You can't give them a new outfit or jewelry to wear. They won't even go shopping for potions or new clothes (talk about unrealistic). What's the use of having hundreds of thousands of Septim if your wife won't wear fine clothes and expensive jewelry?