helpmate

In the enigmatic role of first lady, she struggled with the symbolism—part beauty queen, part saint, part helpmate.

I have promised on your behalf that you will be a good and faithful helpmate to him before God and man.

She is not strong, and not good-looking, and not young; but what a splendid helpmate she would be for a sensible, cultivated man!

But her life was busy and earnest: she was helpmate, not in name only, to an ever-busy man.