helpmate

In her new book about her 107-day run for president, Kamala Harris suggests that President Biden was more hindrance than helpmate.

Harris suggests in many ways Biden was more hindrance than helpmate as she struggled to step out from the shadow that inevitably shrouds the vice president.

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.