Skyler is a really good wife in season 1
A bit of background: I'm 39, male, I've been married 7 years, I'm rewatching Breaking Bad for at least the 8th time. I first watched it pretty much as soon as it came out in 2008, so 18 years ago, I would have been 21, I still lived with my parents; I'm a very different person now to what I was then.
I am struck in this rewatch how good a wife Skylar is, (in the first season at least).
This is such a good series, because almost all of the major characters "Break Bad" at some point, yes Skylar becomes a worse wife in the later seasons BUT you see her progression, just as with the other characters; nobody Breaks Bad in a vacuum; they do it because things happen to them or around them.
Walt does it because he's diagnosed with cancer and has money troubles/midlife crisis.
Hank does it because he's traumatised from the explosion with the turtle.
Skylar only became a worse wife because she had a bad husband, who got progressively much worse.
She's so supportive in these first 5 episodes; she's pretty much an ideal wife, and I think people who hate on her should not forget that. She's like my wife in her best moments; not every wife is as lovely and supportive as Skylar appears to be almost all the time because of her deep love for Walt. Everything she does, she does because she loves and cares for Walt, without the ego and selfishness that Walt has when he does what he does.
It's really quite nice to see and I never really appreciated this fact before. I find her a much more sympathetic character because she gives Walt nothing but love, and unfortunately Walt seems incapable of giving it back to her on the same level.
Also she's very well written and her role is very well acted because I'm not saying she's perfect because that would be unrealistic, she not but she's a realistic portrayal of a really good wife.