Lifelong Love Affair by Jimmy Evans

Author:Jimmy Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL012050, Marriage—Religious aspects—Christianity
ISBN: 9781441240002
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group

Your Husband’s Fourth Need: Domestic Support

Many of us are old enough to remember the original family sitcoms from the fifties and sixties like Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best. That was when television was still wholesome and inoffensive.

Most of those shows had a common theme—the wives would stay home and take care of the house and kids while the husbands went off to work. The husband would come home in the evenings and be greeted at the door with a smile and a kiss. The wife would always be dressed in a frilly apron and pearls. She’d hand him his pipe and paper and then help him settle into his big easy chair before scurrying back into the kitchen to finish getting dinner on the table. Dad was “king of the castle,” and Mom was there to make sure he was taken care of.

This was Hollywood’s version of home life during that time. I grew up in the fifties, and I can honestly say that life wasn’t quite that blissful. I don’t remember any pipe and paper waiting for Dad when he got home, and I never once saw Mom wear pearls with her apron. By the time Dad walked in the door, she was usually so frazzled that she needed help taking care of the kids, so he’d roll up his sleeves and dive in.

But the basic idea of those shows was something most of us could relate to. In most families, Dad was the provider and Mom took care of the home. They had distinct roles to play in the family, and both understood those roles. Most of the families I grew up with lived on one income and money was often tight, but life seemed much simpler and less stressful. Overall, families seemed happier.

Anytime I talk about the differing roles of husbands and wives in the home, I risk offending the majority of women in the audience. Today more than half of all wives work outside the home, and many families couldn’t get by otherwise. Times have changed, and I’m not trying to turn the clock back to the fifties. But I also know how men and women are wired, and some truths will never change.

Women, by nature, have the gift of nesting. They are happier and more content when they’re focused on their homes and families. Not only that, but they’re much better at it than men. Women are more domestically centered than men, and I believe that’s because God created them that way.

In the book of Titus, older women in the church are commanded to “teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed (Titus 2:4–5 KJV, italics mine).

The Greek word translated in this text as “keepers at home” is oikourous, and it’s a word derived from two different Greek words. The first, oikos, means a “house” or “dwelling,” and the second, ouros, refers to a “keeper” or “guardian.

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