helpmate

Matt Walsh, meanwhile, lectures that a woman's place is as a "helpmate" and men don't — or shouldn't — want a partner who has money or a life of her own.

But when Styron had depression in the 1980s she was a stalwart helpmate in his recovery, and encouraged him to write “Darkness Visible,” the memoir that has become one of his best known works.

On the face of it, your partner doesn’t seem to have placed a high priority on being your stalwart helpmate.

And Guenevere is now a strategic helpmate, periodically outthinking her husband.

“Emma Smith was far more than an appendage and helpmate to prominent men,” the authors wrote.