So, as a woman reads this, she should hear the Word of God and be ready for what God is saying to her through it. She should not go to her husband in a panic, asking whether she really is a help to him. If she is not helping him, and chances are that someone reading this book is not helping in some ways, then he might actually have something to criticize. However, since the wife is panicking, she will just melt down at what he says, and he will then be tempted to take what he said back and patch it all up. Then the two will stagger down the road for another couple of years.
