Tirukkural-On Virtue-The Helpmate-Kural 51

51. Manaittakka manputaiya lakittar kontan
valattakkal valkkait tunai.

A woman, who maintains her family status and manages her household,
Well within her husband's resources, is an ideal wife.

The ideal wife would be the one who would uphold the prestige of her family within the limits of her husband's resources. The partnership for life between man and wife will not work otherwise. To be blessed with such a wife is the greatest gift of providence; for what is asked of the wife is not easy. She has to wrench herself from her original moorings and orient her attitudes and even her life to the economic and cultural circumstances of her husband's home, in the family of her adoption.

That is why the Bible says:

'House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord'.

(19:14) The surprise really is that most wives survive this ordeal so well, and that is what keeps humanity going. It is about such a wife that Sirupanchamoolam would record as follows: Varuvaaikuth thakka valakarindhu kattram

Oruvaamai veelvirndhombi
Seivadhe pendir sirappu