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Trad Wife · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our American mamas. Dear mamas, have you heard
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  about the online debate about trad wives? Oh well, let's ask our American
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  mamas, am Ma and Jodi Is now our American mamas Terry Nudeville and Kimberly
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  brother. Listen. First of all, why online and on the left do
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  we have to take things that are are normal, that are good, that
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  are wholesome and give them a name that makes them sound nefarious. Like I'm
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  talking to two cisgendered women right now, Look at you? How dare you
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  be cisgendered trad wives? Like basic, like normal, like how things have
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  been since the dawn of time. That's right. They were now supposed to
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  be insulting that with made up names. Okay, tradwife, traditional wife.
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  Why are we arguing about this? Well, I think it's because there's an
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  influencer. She's just the cutest thing. She's young, and it's a new
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  generation of quote unquote tradwives. So she's got the she looks like she has
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  like a sixties kind of boufont. She wears an apron, she kind of
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  does all the like that's what she wants. She said, She and her
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  husband. When they started dating, they talked and this is the life that
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  they wanted. He was going to go out of the house to provide and
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  she was going to, you know, stay in and manage the household.
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  And so she goes through her day. You watch the video and she's like,
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  you know, for an hour and a half, I do my hair
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  and makeup, after I put the load of wash on, then I clean
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  this, then I make my bread. Then she's got the apron. So
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  that's a trigger. That's a trigger. So counter that with another influencer on
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  the opposite side who takes issue. I cannot think of this girl's name.
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  She takes issue with the trad wife. And she's like, my husband works
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  outside of the home. I stay home. I make my children's lunches for
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  school. I'm not making his lunch. I watch my children's club. He
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  can wash his own clothes. And it's like this, you know, you
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  know, he woman, I mean she woman, like he can do his
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  own. So's you've got these two opposite and it's like y'all have got it
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  wrong. I mean the one on the left for sure, the one that's
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  like, I'm not gonna be loving to my husband. I'm not going to
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  treat him like a partner. No, it's it's very unloving. Why wouldn't
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  you do something nice for your husband because in her mind you have the opportunity
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  to. It's weak, it's weak. So what I say, we've talked
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  about this. Two things can coexist at once. You can have You can
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  be a traditional wife who loves to cook, manage the house and the children,
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  love your husband, wash his clothes. Y'all might take turns and be
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  a million dollar attorney in Louisiana. I mean, one of my best friends
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  is that flies all over the world. Five children, cooks meals, she
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  does, you know, manages that you got to, you know, dresses
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  them. Yet she's also a powerful woman in the courtroom. Okay, that
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  is very revered. And this happens all over America. You love and want
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  to be That's what I am. I'm a traditional wife. That's the role
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  I wanted to be, right and my husband, you know, has his
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  role. He's the protector, provider, blah blah blah blah blah. But
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  it doesn't mean that I can't go. If I see something that I want
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  to do or accomplish, I can't And doesn't mean an American mama. Yeah,
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  and it doesn't mean that I don't teach my daughter you can be anything
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  you want to be, including a mom and a wife exactly. So I
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  don't know, I feel exactly like you, they can coexist. I feel
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  like what happens to a lot of women is they feel like it's a sacrifice
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  and if they make that sacrifice, they lose a part of themselves. And
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  so to me, if you are going to be in a traditional situation with
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  your husband, it's an agreement between the two of you, because if it
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  isn't an agreement, there's resentment on whatever whatever side. Because sometimes it was
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  hard for me as a traditional wife when I didn't have money, you know,
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  in my cheap, tight wad, beautiful, amazing husband controlled the purse
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  strings. It made it a little more difficult. When I was working,
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  I did what I wanted to do. If there's something that we disagreed on,
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  I still did what I wanted to do, and so I had,
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  you know, like some control because his personality is that way. But then
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  when I stopped working and I was at home and he became the sole provider,
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  it became very hard for me because I'm doing all those things that I
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  love and they still matter to me. But I had somebody saying, no,
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  we're not going to do that because he thinks very differently about how you
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  spend money, budgeting, budgeting, and so then it became a little bit
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  of resentment, you know, like, no, I gave up this,
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  not for you to tell me, know you know, So there is the
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  hat I think that that's what happens in a lot of marriages. There's the
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  sacrifice. There's a sacrifice that they're not happy with. That's uncomfortable, and
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  honestly, the one thing that the thing that I would say sometimes is you
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  have to understand the appreciation is our payments. Yes, so if you take
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  me for granted, or if you expect things rather than appreciate it, you
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  and I are going to have trouble because since I don't get paid to do
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  this, I mean, the payment comes in the children you raise and sending
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  them mouth to be beautiful human beings in the world. But all I need,
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  all I need is for you to say, gosh, you worked hard
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  today, what you know, the house smells good or you know whatever,
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  So you do you kind of go back and forth and figure out what works
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  for you. They did have these moms on Doctor Phil. I mean these
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  Mormon ex tradwives and they're divorced, and they were on the side of the
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  you know, more of the woke one that was like, you know,
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  I'm not doing it. Yes, they were like I wasted all my life
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  and I thought you sound bitter. You said, I don't think that.
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  The reason that you're not a trad wife is I think you chose the wrong
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  person and y'all didn't communicate. That's huge, because, yeah, I can
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  see where my husband would be able to say, you know, he grew
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  up with an Archie and Edith Bunker. I grew up with like huxtables from
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  my parents. So if he tried to be that dominate, domineering to me,
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  it wouldn't work. It wouldn't work for me. If you like to
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  asker America Mom was a question good website American ground Radio dot com slash mamas
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  and click on the ass of the mama's button. Terry Needville, Kimberly bur
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  listen, thank you so much, thank you, Thanks