Didn’t finish all of the stories, but it seems pretty much as you’d expect: get trapped with someone that was either always controlling and selfish or develops that mentality by having control over someone and being the sole money maker.
Really makes the case for me that parenting should be made easier and being a workaholic type de-normalised. All of it seems to be a synptomatic of deeper dynamics around filling your life with things that aren’t satisfying or humane: jobs and “trad helicopter parenting”
Yeah it’s not really surprising. Like the trad wife movement was obviously a mix of things from wanting to be taken care of from overworked women and power tripping from men that feel a lack of control elsewhere in their life and searching for an easy out almost always comes with some big caveats and room for abuse.
We really need work not to be an all encompassing overwhelming burnout endeavor and we really need community support in child support and raising.
Probably will see something interesting happen though just as a counter movement to trad wives but I don’t think it will actually be good persay.Removed by mod
Raising children? Slavery.
Slavery is about the nature of those relationships, not the act. Just because you’re raising kids it doesn’t mean that it’s not slavery, something that’s exceedingly obvious to those who live in “chattel slavery” in which people are owned in more obvious ways, unmediated by debt relationships. Did you know that the words “cattle” and “chattel” and “capital” have the same root, that root word being head?
No article, just a bunch of accounts of women in bad relationships told first-person. Nothing unexpected. All the things you know happen in such relationships. Started scrolling to get past the narrations to the article and found that’s all there was.
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You’re intended to read the headline and get so infuriated that you rage in the comments, not actually read an article.
Aha, I see. Thanks for pointing that out. I recall seeing some discussion in the past and recognize the name now that you pointed it out.
The second anecdote:
"Our relationship started feeling off, emotionally, physically, it all just started falling apart slowly over a year or so. He worked so much, we lived apart when our second child was born because of work. It was a lot. We did therapy and tried all sorts of things until we decided to divorce.
Turned out, my husband was gay, didn’t want to ever face it due to his own reasons (parental shaming as a kid, amongst other things) [and had] created the life he thought he should have and had been having affairs online for years.
The article has nothing to do with tradwives. It’s anecdotes from people who married the wrong person.
It does though.
For example the person you’re talkimg about in that second excerpt was a stay-at-home mother of two that homeschooled her children.
The article certainly is a loose collection of experiences with little added value but it is coherent with the title.
@return2ozma@lemmy.world That was an interesting read
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Here, you must’ve dropped this.
