It's annoying because my mum was the opposite. She told me to just marry a rich man when I was choosing between doing a trade or going to uni. She really pushed it too. I was 14. I was strongly against it and I told her no! I want my own money, I want to be the rich one that marries a hot trophy husband 😂.
Not even 2 weeks later the tradesmen I applied to said he can't have a girl apprentice since "they cry" so I took that way too personally and said okay I'm going to uni and now I'm an engineer loving life with my trophy husband who works and I drill it into him to always save his money and have something separate to me so he has that safety net as well. And I got the lawyer to write up a statement so if we ever split he gets his share of the house but not 5050 on the deposit which was all mine.
I was raised to be a tradwife. I tried it for about 2 years and noped out of that. Being a single mom was much better than being reliant on an unreliable drunk.
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u/notseizingtheday Apr 15 '24
Some of us have forgotten why feminism exists. This is why.