I think perhaps the thing people see in you they wish their wives would imitate, Jamie, is a willingness to embrace things like this project alongside your husband and really go for it. You aren't a hold on Zac, you're an enthusiastic participant and this homestead is your effort TOGETHER. The off-grid lifestyle and the effort to pursue it is a shared conviction, not one Zac has and you're just being dragged along with.
So often husbands and wives do not have the relationship that allows them to share convictions and one longs to do something that the other just does not want to be part of. Thinking about this during the week really has made me think about how important this is for husbands and wives, to be able to share convictions and not have either of us just put up with our spouse's interests or desires.