Now, while the setup of "male predator, female prey" is vastly more popular overall, metaphorically representing the standard chase dynamic and reflecting the natural roles of a hunter and a gatherer, the reverse version always appealed to me more: in a crude, mechanical sense the idea of the female eating the male entirely is an exaggeration of how, when the two become one flesh, a small piece of the husband goes inside of the wife. There are other levels on which it can be symbolic too, such as an exaggeration of the man being the breadwinner/bringing home the bacon if his sacrifices as a provider make him a sacrificial lamb, where his body is the bacon.
This is the side that I started seeing things from. Part of it was also an appeal to my base nature not in terms of lust, but of sloth; wanting to get the start of a relationship and then basically abandoning all responsibility, shirking my duties to either retreat to the inside of my wife as a form of passivity (or worse, to die and have my provider duties summed up as "roughly one mouse body's worth of calories"). I've grown more and more to like the male predator with female prey as I've grown less cowardly, and to really think about the setup that's still my preference in a healthier way.
When it comes to couples like this, a fairly common way to compensate for the usual issues of herbivores being perceived as passive and carnivores as more active and this possibly making the husband seem too weak is to make them more anthropomorphic. The more human-shaped the characters are, the more man-shaped and man-sized the man will be compared to his wife - a lithe, slender wolf and a beefy bull, strong buck, or so forth. Another is to make sure the man has a very manly personality - the less traditionally manly an animal (small housecat or bunny rabbit for example) the more his individual personality needs to contrast the expectations his species sets, and at times the exaggerated deviation of species expectation in personality can be perceived as humorous.
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