After the birth of Christ, she was still kept on earth, to follow His career to the end.
There was a secret understanding between Himself and her.

As for instance, when she found Him among the doctors of the law, she for one moment suffered her humanity to get the better of her in anxious inquiries; and His reply, 'Why sought ye Me?
Wist ye not that I must be about My Father's business ?' was a sort of reminder to her, which she at once accepted.

Again, at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee, when Christ turned the water into wine, He said to His mother, 'WOMAN, what have I to do with thee ?' which meant simply: What have I to do with thee as WOMAN merely ?--which was another reminder to her of her spiritual origin, causing her at once to address the servants who stood by as follows: 'Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it.' And why, it may be asked, if Mary was really an imprisoned immortal Spirit, sinless and joyous, should she be forced to suffer all the weaknesses, sorrows, and anxieties of any ordinary woman and mother?
SIMPLY AS AN EXAMPLE TO WOMEN who are the mothers of the human race; and who, being thus laid under a heavy responsibility, need sympathetic guidance.

Mary's life teaches women that the virtues they need are--obedience, purity, meekness, patience, long-suffering, modesty, self-denial, and endurance.

She loved to hold a secondary position; she placed herself in willing subjection to Joseph--a man of austere and simple life, advanced in years, and weighted with the cares of a family by a previous marriage--who wedded her by AN INFLUENCE WHICH COMPELLED HIM to become her protector in the eyes of the world.