byjoveimbeinghumble:

“God creates a woman for man, to be his helpmate. “It is not well that man should be without companionship; I will give him a mate of his own kind.” (Genesis 2:18, 19) The Divine creation of the two sexes is here suggested as essential from the point of view of fellowship. A helpmate does not mean servile inferiority, but rather that through differences, like a bow and violin, they would complement each other. Sex is not only the Divinely-willed manner in which mankind will increase and multiply; it is also to be the basis of mutual helpfulness. Not to every husband and wife is given the privilege of having a Pentecost of the flesh through the birth of a new physical body, but to every one is given the companionship which God wills should be his lot on earth.”

— Venerable Fulton Sheen, Three To Get Married (1951)