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“I can’t imagine coming home and having to cook dinner and deal with someone else’s problems,” she said. “I’m not there yet.”
When being a wife and a mother become something to sneer at, we truly are doomed as a society.
What the Republican party should be focused on is de-funding and dis-empowering those social institutions(academia media etc) which teach and promote this frightening level of selfishness and narcissism.
That’s correct. I love taking care of my husband, and that includes cooking good dinners for him. When he was a bachelor and on his own, he would do anything quick and easy for dinner....why wouldn’t I want better for him if I love him?
Selfish witches. I wonder if they know what love is.
As a single woman, never married, no kids, I have great respect for married moms with children.
I don't know how they do it. It is one of the most HARDEST jobs there is, but yet the ones I know seem to take such joy from it.
“I can’t imagine coming home and having to cook dinner and deal with someone else’s problems,” she said. “I’m not there yet.”
Middle-class America now looks down on women who fail to get an education and support themselves. “Gold-digger” is the nicest word for those who don’t, when they used to be called aspiring wives and mothers.
Well, this woman did what society expected. You can’t call her lazy or a gold-digger.
She is simply reasonably asking how she can work eleven-hour days, then come home and care for a husband and children. It’s untenable. It’s bad for children. Marriages do not have a chance. And this generation has figured it out.
If we’ve learned nothing else over the last forty years, it’s that this impossible scheme simply doesn’t work. Why should she wreck her life and her kids’ lives and some guy’s life trying to do the impossible? If you have children, you need to be a mother and only a mother. You need a man willing to marry who isn’t going to bemoan that lost second income.
What’s left out of this discussion is men’s role in deconstructing society. They won’t marry full-time homemakers — it’s embarrassing. They want someone with an important job — just a little less prestigious than their own. They marry later and later, if at all. How is it that houses today have twice the square footage they had in the 1970s? Two incomes.
Working mother is a miserable way to live. I’m not mad at anyone who eschews it.
“When being a wife and a mother become something to sneer at, we truly are doomed as a society.”
Traditional Americans are being replaced by those who still value family; they are inheriting the Earth (literally). I don’t think tending the pet cemeteries of “Americans” will be a priority to these newcomers...