Their Eyes Were WAtching God Ch. 13-15.

In chapter 14, Tea Cake asked Janie to come work with him in the bean fields. Janie was very excited that he was asking her to work with him. A key word there is 'with him'. Tea Cake wanted to have Janie work alongside him as equals. This was something thats been different from her previous marriages. Her previous husbands had her work under them, not as their equals. This was a different type of love for Janie. It was a real love. Tea Cake also expressed to Janie as another reason why he wanted her to work with him, that he missed her to much during the day. He couldn't bare not seeing her throughout the day, which is why he left work multiple times a day to see her. This was also different for Janie, because never before had her husbands wanted to see her and spend time so badly.