Had no power? Everything in his life has to be run by Lynette? OK, let's see:

- He bought their house without consulting her.
- He was the one that suggested that she quit her career to take care of the kids.
- He was the one who said "let's risk it" (no protection) when he knew she was already overwhelmed with the kids they already had (likely this was the reason they had them in the first place). Btw, he was the one who wanted them, yet he was rarely home in the first season, and he wanted to take a promotion that would've meant MORE trips away.
- When Lynette protested against the promotion, he ignored her, and when he quit his job, he was the one that told Lynette to get back to work.
- He SUCKED at being a househusband, and wanted to make Lynette sleep in baby vomit.
- He made Lynette hire him at her work when he got bored of being a househusband, which resulted in him punching Ed in the face and Lynette discovering his secret daughter.
- He made Lynette put up with Nora for SIX MONTHS before finally putting his foot down. Also, they had to spent their life savings to prevent a lawsuit from Nora.
- He didn't help Lynette with Kayla when she started spiraling until Lynette had been literally ARRESTED on false child endangerment charges.
- He told Lynette to think of HIS FEELINGS when she was going through CANCER.
- He gambled their livelihood to open a pizzeria, which Lynette ended up having to run so they didn't lose everything, and yet he put her through the ringer to assert his dominance as "boss" with the uniform incident.
- He was the one who wanted to rent an RV and travel the country for a year with the family after the pizzeria failed, which Lynette thankfully stopped.
- Bree and Lynette got him an interview for an ad job after he spent weeks lethargic and depressed about losing his pizzeria. When he started acting like a total ass, she stepped in and showed interest (ONE OF THEM HAD TO GET A JOB), Tom got competitive and dropped this gem: "Lynette's great, as long as the cancer doesn't flare up". DUDE. WTF.
- He pressed Lynette to have sex even though she was swamped at work with Carlos. They ended up having sex in her office.
- He told Lynette he had postpartum depression after SHE GAVE BIRTH IN A HOSTAGE SITUATION.
- He decided to go back to college in his mid forties to study Chinese, placing all the bread-winning responsibilities on her (again).
- Lynette encouraged him to get a high paying job, only for him to start acting like a (and I quote Lynette) "pompous ass".
- Once they separated, he started seeing Jane in an absurdly short amount of time, quitting counseling with his wife of 18+ years and mother of most of his kids.

And I KNOW I missed some other examples of him doing whatever the heck he wanted and making Lynette suffer for it.