If you choose a traditional wife, you should be paying for everything including into her pension fund

My mother was married to my father for 65 years, gave birth to his 8 children and loved her family, yet she told me, don’t ever get married and don’t ever have children, it ruins your life.  

She was married at 19, she died at 19 and wife and mom was born. Her life stopped being about what she wanted, and she told me not to do it.  So it’s not the bargain you all think it is.

My ex husband used to say "here's the deal..." And then give options that completely give him the choices I was supposed to choose from those options that would benefit him. I laughed so hard the first time he did. The shock on his face because I refused to play his game and his rules was hilarious. There's a lot of reasons why he's an ex. This was just one.

My great grandmother was a stay at home wife who ran a whole farm and slaughtered animals and she was fed up with her husband. He almost killed her in childbirth multiple times because he forced her to “serve” him in bed. She threatened to put him 6 feet under and he believed her but not before she spent thirty years resentful of her children. She seemed so happy and at peace in the nursing home away from him.

These young girls don't end up in a Trad Life, they end up in a Trapped Life. But hey, being 18 or 19, they know it all don't they? And women that don't agree with them are just old jealous women. 🤔

My grandmother was a stay at home wife & mother.  It filled her with so much joy & happiness that it overwhelmed her & she had to unalive herself.  I never even got to meet her.  I wish I had.

I’ve been trad wife for 14 years, my husband left me for an 18 years old, told me he will give me NOTHING because I deserve NOTHING. He made a space for a new woman real quick, spends millions on her jewelry and bags… but their relationship is going to an end now as she is very demanding. He wants to come back now… to his economical, practical, supportive, hard-working wife… but guess what… that trad wife do not exist anymore… she was left in the cold for 2 years, she had to adapt and become a man.

My father taught me how to be independent. He taught me to take care of myself, not depend on others

When my grandma died 10 years ago, my grandfather was completely lost and dependent on others because he had ZERO adult survival skills. He could not cook, he could not wash laundry or clean the house or anything. He was like an 8 year old in an 80 year old's body. Is that what a real man is? A manchild who cannot live on his own and take care of himself in the most basic of ways? Because I call that pathetic.

Two decades can't create a tradition. I was born in the 50s.  My mother worked before she was married and after she was married. The 50s and 60s housewife only existed on tv and in families where men could support a family without his wife's income.  Married women have been working for centuries.

A well-used passport, a head full of memories and an album full of photos is worth more to me than being someone's mother or maid.

'traditional wives' is just modern codeword for domestic slavery, like in the past.

Who are these men in their 30s wanting wives like their mothers? I’m 55 years old and my mom worked a full time job and went to graduate school while raising me. Even my mother’s mother taught school. My father’s mother stayed at home because they lived in the country and she had six kids

The fact that we're revisiting this philosophy in 2026 is so intentional that it makes me want to vomit. The political "right" has been pushing this for decades, now social media is driving it through the to the stratosphere. Be careful ladies ~ it's a trick!

MEN WANT TRAD WIVES? STOP VOTING AGAINST PAID MATERNITY LEAVE AND WIC DAMN IT. Also men should cook for the family. Gordon ramsey and guy fieri exist.

“Woman-like things,” he said.  I wasn’t aware that chores like laundry, vacuuming and washing dishes were gender specific.  Been married 30 years.  Hubs and I do what needs to be done around the house because our moms are gone and because WE ARE BOTH ADULTS!

If you want a "trad wife" then you need to earn a "trad husband"'s salary.  Most men these days do not.  The norm is a two income household, complete with men picking up some of the household chores while the wife works.  Been that way since the 1980's.

Hell no.  We're not going to be a 50's housewife.

That woman at 10 mins saying the phrase 'stuck at home mum' as oppossed to 'stay at home' is just spectacular!
Stay at home is a choice, a disucssion, a decison together with the knowledge that if you're circumstances change you can go back to work or work out some kind of solution as a family.
Instead of a stuck at home mum who has no choice but to be stuck there being a nanny, cook, cleaner and place for his sexual desire. If he says this isn't working, you are stuck.with nothing, not even the house you've been trapped in your whole relationship. How terrifying!

I keep hearing men say they don't want a woman to work.  What???  If she's a homemaker, she WORKS.  All day long, every day.  Many women are working two jobs, one outside home and one at home when their job outside of home ends every day.  Most men have one job.  They don't come home every day, roll up their sleeves and get busy for the rest of the day.  There might be a few things they do in the course of a week, but to come home and stay busy until bedtime every day........not!