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| 22-Year-Old Quits Her Job For 'Tradwife' Lifestyle, Embraces 1940s‐Has Words For Couples Today |
| 2023-12-24 |
Mrs. Lewis, now 22, has embraced the role of a "tradwife" (traditional wife), a neo-retro lifestyle trend adopted by some conservative newlywed women that has garnered a following on social media. She and her husband, Andrew Lewis, 28, embrace this choice, living together on a farm they purchased in Missouri. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #18 These days when anything can 'marry' anything else I'm not sure having a piece of paper is any substitute for real commitment to a historical nuclear family. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-12-24 18:46 |
| #17 It’s apparently not just wives who’re staying home: Stay At Home Girlfriends Are Having A Moment. In the old days they were called mistresses, but whatevs. Every generation thinks they invented this stuff, I guess. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-12-24 16:13 |
| #16 *shrug* Of my high school group (Class of ‘79 rah!) one of the girls always planned to be a traditional housewife after she got her MA in something interesting but useless. I thought I’d have a career like my mother, but discovered I’m much better as a traditional housewife. And Mr. Wife credits the freedom my choice allowed him for his own success, earning considerably more thereby than we would have had if I’d continued to work, though the earlier years would have been tighter. Indeed, by the 1990s having a stay-at-home spouse had become as much a mark of success as having a high-flying career wife, whether that person is the mother or the father. Among those of my circle who were housewives were women who’d left careers as engineers, CPAs, senior level managers, lawyers, an architect/city planner, and an occupational therapist. The pediatrician and a sculptress chose to work part time while their children were in school. Mr. Wife’s nieces, who are in their mid-thirties, got into knitting, the fashionable needle art for pre-motherhood females in their generation, just as I used to do embroidery and crochet at that stage of my life. Mrs. Lewis is just monetizing her dress-up hobby in addition to the usual stuff. Rereading Skidmark’s article about dear little Brielle Asero, it occurs to me that complaining about commuting two hours each way to work for an exciting start-up in New York City that barely pays the bills is legitimate; I suspect even if she hadn’t been downsized she would within a year have left it for something considerably more secure and less time-consuming — and probably considerably less exciting. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-12-24 14:46 |
| #15 Thanks Seeking! My bad. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2023-12-24 14:30 |
| #14 This lifestyle seemed to work quite well in the 1950s and early 1960s. But we really, really hated success and happiness, I guess. |
| Posted by: Tom 2023-12-24 14:30 |
| #13 ^Ha, ha. A jolly good joke old chap! |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-12-24 14:12 |
| #12 What about "the oldest profession"? Farming? Herding? It's a bit harder than one might think! |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2023-12-24 14:06 |
| #11 ^I believe they are talking about the linked article in comment #1, rather than the actual article about the traditional young wife. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2023-12-24 12:56 |
| #10 The people of Rantburg are smarter than this... It traditional wife, not trading wife's. Who the hell in the comments thinks being a wife, staying true to your husband and raising a family is bad or stupid? The woman wants to lead a traditional Christian life, and she gets mocked? I guess my grandmother mother and wife of 32 years are just closet progressives lost in the hype... We used to call people like this the salt of the earth. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2023-12-24 11:03 |
| #9 What about "the oldest profession"? That is OnlyFans these days. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2023-12-24 09:31 |
| #8 Believe half of what you see and nothing of what you hear... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-12-24 09:03 |
| #7 I'm a little surprised that the "Inspired Epoch Staff" believes traditional families are so rare. In my neighborhood/town, while my kids were growing up in the 90's-00's, I'd guess about 40% of households were traditional. I have no reason to guess that things have changed since then. |
| Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed 2023-12-24 08:55 |
| #6 You might catch progressivism from that. Condoms don't help. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-12-24 08:13 |
| #5 #1 What about "the oldest profession"? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-12-24 08:10 |
| #4 #3 for #1 |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-12-24 07:55 |
| #3 Her lefty parents who made her like that probably have a nice basement... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-12-24 07:54 |
| #2 Life is tough. It's a lot tougher if you are stupid. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-12-24 07:49 |