Happened last night:
When your spouse starts looking on Craigslist too for snakes. And her search includes the neigboring states!
When you start to list things you don't use or want on Ebay to raise money to buy another snake!
Oh and the best yet:
When you start to make moves on your wife and she responds only to abruptly stop you because the snake is out of it's hide (no pun intended) and she wants to see it!