A marriage contains two complete roles that must be fulfilled. Women have a full-time job to satisfy the duties of a wife. Men have a full-time job fulfilling the duties of a husband. For many years, our society has placed an arbitrary value on the husband’s responsibilities and has discounted the wife’s work. As a result, many women are no longer satisfied with their role. They have been led to believe that the only way to satisfaction is to take on some or all of the husband’s work. However, this causes the wife to be overworked. Something has to give way, and often, duties are neglected because there is not enough time to be both a wife and a husband.
The problem is not with the duties assigned by God to the wife but with our view of those duties. They are not despicable duties. They are vital tasks that bring glory to both the wife and her family.