Cheryl Schatz

(baal)
Owner, possessor, husband, Baal. Ugaritic also has the double use of master and the name of a deity. The root in most semitic languages means either “lord” or, when followed by a genitive, “owner.”
In addition to ba?al as owner of things, the noun in the plural is used for citizens (ba?alîm) of a city (Josh 24:11). In Jud 9 where the noun occurs sixteen times, ASV consistently translates “men,” but RSV in addition to “men” employs “citizens” (Jud 9:2) and “people” (Jud 9:46). ba?al can refer to partner or ally (Gen 14:13). Idiomatically ba?al as master of something characterizes the person (e.g. ba?al of wrath, Prov 22:24; of appetite, Prov 23:2; of dreams, Gen 37:19) or identifies occupation (e.g. officer, ba?al of the guard, Jer 37:13).

Harris, R. L., Harris, R. L., Archer, G. L., & Waltke, B. K. (1999). Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament

The primary meaning of baal is master of something. While it can mean husband, it is the husband as master. That would seem to be the kind of marriage where the wife is not in an intimate relationship with the man, but is owned by him. This is the kind of relationship of master that will be left behind to take on the intimacy of complete union.