helpmate

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.

There he was, helping her with the occasional button, doing the cooking, driving her everywhere — a helpmate in life for an extraordinary woman who had been blind since shortly after birth.