Thread:Nerdtastic1221/@comment-27496405-20190321163014/@comment-25999669-20190321163320

He mentioned her when he was hiding out in Rogers' apartment, since he knew their conversation was being listened to he needed an excuse to be there without yelling "HYDRA is trying to kill me", so he made the reasonable excuse that his "wife" kicked him out.

We know as an audience that he was not there because his wife kicked him out of the house, he was there because HYDRA was trying to kill him.

Mentioning the wife was a way of making his conversation with Rogers seem as normal as possible, it was a lie.