You are just so sweet.....
....I wish he’d take better care of himself. He works very very very hard to provide for his kids...Mon-Fridays and he works on the weekends on call....
That is the man in him, I think. I truly think that men are given the desire by God to provide for his family and to protect them. That is why many men work long hours and some, as we’ve all seen, literally work themselves to death. Your brother is just responding to the image of God in himself. It is natural.
A few years ago our group held retreats, one for the ladies in the autumn, and one for the men, in the spring. At each, there was a slumber party feature. Almost all the ladies chose to spend the night. NONE of the men did so. Their wives and children were in the town and in their own homes. The men chose to go home at night. I saw that as the women’s desire to bond and form relationships and men’s desire to protect their families. They almost all said to me something like, “many locals know we’re having this retreat. Thieves know it our homes are more vulnerable.”