And I think that's like, I think you're significantly missing out and probably will lose in the long run.

What's up, guys? Welcome to Five Minute Fatherhood. So were we meant to work with our wives?

This is a, this is oftentimes a conversation or a question that most people in our culture have sort of a knee-jerk

response to no like you know she's got her thing i got my thing even if your wife stays at home

there isn't a a natural expectation that hey maybe we were maybe the design was for us to work

together at some level um and I was having this conversation recently,

and somebody pointed out in Genesis 2, something I'd never really thought of before.

So in Genesis 218, it says, the Lord God said, is not good for the man to be alone. I will make

a helper suitable for him. And so a lot of us know about that verse, but what this friend of mine pointed out was, you know, that was in the context of his work. I was like, what? And it was like, I kind of surprised me because, of course, there were no children yet. And if you read the context, what's going on is that Adam is working. He's cultivating. He's naming the animals. He's given all this responsibility over this garden. And then the Lord looks at that and says, it's not good for him to be

alone. He needs help. I'm going to make a helper suitable for him. And so that made me think,

wow, there's this question or this knee-jerk reaction we have to the idea that, you know,

husbands and wives are really not meant to work together.

That may be a bit of sort of a modern reality as opposed to a design. And if you think about,

you know, the way that God brings husbands and wives together, how they complement each other,

and a lot of that happens, obviously, in the family, in the home. I don't think this is a rule.

You know, if this is not, you know, either work for you logistically or healthy for you,

like there's no, this is not one of the Ten Commandments, Thou shalt work with your wife.

I just find it really, I find it really interesting, though, that when God looked at Adam and

in his work, there was a sense in which I don't want him to do that alone. And so one of the things

I know that we've tried to figure out as a couple with April and I, I is there places where we can overlap. And so,

you know, we've started, you know, five different companies over the last 20 years. And every single

one of those have had a very different conversation around how do we work together in this company?

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