On Trad Wives, Holy Week and Self-Expression
Aka, if there are un-connectable dots out there, I will try to connect them.
Earlier last week, I put a question box in my Instagram stories asking my followers to submit their definitions for trad wife. Many writers who I greatly respect have been offering lucid criticisms of this movement that we see exploding on social media, and I began planning a post. However, considering it is Holy Week, I felt it inappropriate to write extensively about such an incendiary issue. Instead, what I want to do is I want to take some of the ideas that we see in the trad wife movement and challenge them, bring us back to the example of Christ and his Mother.
I have every intention of coming back in April to complete and publish the other trad wife post that I have drafted, complete with many of your submitted definitions, along with a post about whether procreation is the primary purpose of marriage. If all goes well And I don't yet again succumb to ideas that pop up in the tyranny of the moment, May will bring a post that connects the dots between these two ideologies. Consider yourself taunted.
There is something undeniably attractive about what trad wives offer. They portray an idyllic life, one where a home is beautiful, children are orderly, and life is as wholesome as it is fulfilling. It promises something that draws in any sane person who wants to build a good life. This is what can make it so confusing and so troubling.
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