A Housewife She Could Have Been
December 14, 2023
TAUGHT by the world around her that housewives are failures in life, it’s no wonder this woman ended up where she is — divorced, childless and past her prime.
From The New York Post:
Melissa Persling recently wrote an essay for Business Insider titled, “I’m 38 and single, and I recently realized I want a child. I’m terrified I’ve missed my opportunity.” She said after it went viral in November, hate began to pour in from men telling her that she’s lived a selfish life. Persling has a much different account of her story.
When Persling was 22, she married a traditional man and moved to a rural community in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where she grew up.
“He wanted a simple life with children and home-cooked meals,” she said. However, Persling – despite coming from a religious Christian background – made it clear to her husband-to-be that she did not want children.
“At that time I felt very strongly I did not want children, that I wasn’t going to be like the traditional housewife. I knew I did want to pursue a career,” she told Fox News Digital in an interview. “And I felt very strongly that that would never change. And I guess I was wrong.”
Millions of women like her have been betrayed by feminism during their young and impressionable years. It takes courage to buck the conditioning and become a housewife or support the ideals of domestic life. At least Persling has the humility to admit she was wrong.
By the way, the media, after glorifying careerism in women every day of the week, seems to take perverse delight in stories like this that frighten and demoralize young women with the specter of childlessness and a lonely old age. Creating fear, depression and anxiety is a big business. The reality is, whatever a woman has experienced, however much she has been betrayed by falsehoods and however many bad decisions she has made, she can still find happiness at any age in life by pursuing truth and virtue. (Persling could make some progress in this direction by dressing with feminine dignity and modesty.)
— Comments —
David writes:
That woman is potentially very attractive. The only problem is, was her marriage legitimate? If it is, she’s still married. Maybe she can reconcile with her husband, but who knows?
Laura writes:
I imagine he has moved on, but who knows.
