When he stopped bossing her around, then she started listening to him.

When Mohandas Gandhi was 13 years old his parents arranged a marriage with Kasturba, who was 12. As Hindu writings said that wives naturally obey their husbands, he told her to ask his permission before going out to play with her friends & tried to get her to do petty errands for him. She just ignored everything he said, causing him to reconsider how he had been raised to treat women - & began his path to becoming a humble holy man.