Dude!!!
No matter WHAT your wife or anyone else says...you are BONED!!!!!
Accept that it will
always come back to bite you in the a** and move on.
My wife is still paying for the time she crawled home drunk at 3:30 AM when she was supposed to be back at 9. No phone call. No SMS. Pub crawling with work cronies in Soho.
That was ten 13 years ago and I still get mileage from it.
Alas, your situation is reversed.
Be brave.