This is one of my favorite posts by my good friend Wired Momma. What the h is wrong with being a typical wife? According to her, nada. I think she nails it when she talks about how it’s easy to be a wife when we choose to leave our careers on our own terms. For those of us lucky enough to have a choice of whether or not we want to work, when we can exit when we please, it’s rather easy to embrace a typical wifely role. We have the freedom to be a wife/ mom on our own terms.
But then, it’s easy to forget that some of us out there don’t have this choice or struggle with the choice.
And, it’s also easy to forget sometimes that for us to be happy being a wife means that someone else has had to give up something.
The husband. The husband who makes it all possible for the “happy housewife” to exist.
But why would the media ever want to cover that angle?
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I agree that there hasn’t been a whole lot of press around the evolving roles of fathers. Men have experienced a big shift as well– having gone from being the detached breadwinner a la “Mad Men” to the involved, sensitive one from… I can’t even think of current example. Telling?
Late last year, I heard an interview with author/comedian Chris Mancini from the Manic Mommies. He wrote “Pacify Me”, a new dad perspective. I haven’t read it, but in the interview, he discusses how there really isn’t a model for how modern husbands and fathers are supposed to behave (and no one is talking about it).
Here’s the link: http://www.manicmommies.com/?p=2731
Thanks for the link! I love the Manic Mommies.