Posted on 08/11/2018 12:27:31 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
You should be proud you were a stay at home wife and mom. So was my mom (older than you) and that created a stable, happy home life; my dad was home on the dot at 6:30pm! It was a halcyon time. If it makes you feel better, she too regretted not having a lot in her SS account (none at all, I think!) but she was satisfied generally and her husband left her enough dough to live comfortably.
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That generally comes with the "post-menopausal drama queen" thing, LOL
In all seriousness though, this sounds an awful lot like something that Bill Gothard and the Institute In Basic Life Principles would teach today.
i find that to be more than a little disturbing.
Wow!
Beautiful post!
I can’t think of a better way to describe it.
Slaves on plantations did the work that made the money but they weren’t the ones who controlled how that money was spent and, correspondingly, they weren’t the ones who benefited from that money.
It has a lot of common attitudes, with some clear absurdity corrupting it.
You know, that list and what you described actually reminds me a bit of MGS3 and The Boss’s definition of what it means to be a soldier and patriotic/devoted to your country.
https://youtu.be/pDXGCTkjD78?t=54
And let me put it this way: The way she was talking, you’re not even supposed to hold to morality or think about it regarding the mission, you’re not even allowed to love, and you’re mandated to obey literally any order you’re given, even if it’s an inherently amoral order like, say, using flamethrowers at a house with an innocent family still inside, or dumping poison in a riverbed to kill off an entire village, be a political tool in other words, to be patriotic/devoted to your country, heck, to be a soldier overall. Certainly the bit where the “list” actually said your spouse is not supposed to be even slightly worried or angry if you stay out all night or come home late sounds very similar. In both cases, it basically seems to teach that to be of that profession, you’d have to be, as someone on GameFAQs (https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/681794-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain/69849402) put it regarding that topic, “an unthinking, unfeeling, soulless body that can be told where to point a gun”, or in the case of a housewife, how to manage the home.
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