Anonymous
6/20/2025, 7:16:00 AM No.33247352
When we dated and got married it wasn't so bad at all, but overtime my mom and his mom and remembering how my father raised me have drilled in the idea that as his (biological) wife, I am his property. My life's purpose is to serve him. My body should be whatever he likes, my job is to keep his house clean and functional and appealing to him, to tend our children and never ever let anyone help. If they help me I'm a failure who can't hack it. Thats what all these older women tell me, thats how its SUPPOSED to be. Isn't it? I'll never be as important as him, as intelligent as him, I'll always think like a woman and need him overseeing me and my decisions.
So why does my own husband hate it? He says it's disgusting I see myself as an object, he doesnt understand the change, he hates that I'm "belittling" myself. But I've seen how efficient and smart he is compared to me, why should i be under his direction forever? Why else are most successful families patriarchal? What's so wrong with being an object if its just what nature designed me to be? I've realized that as much as I used to resent being what they call a "trad wife", its all I'm meant for. Nothing bigger. I dont know how to make him see. He just gets more upset when im stressed about housework not being good enough or noticing I gained 5lbs from my 21BMI position and deciding it may be best to move down to BMI 19 where there's less space for face fat abd getting too pudgy. He acts lije its so disturbing, "when did i ask you to do this? What makes you think I want you that skinny?" Uh, because why wouldn't you? Youre a man. I'm VERY aware he hates fat women, what's the big deal if I want to optimize and be as skinny as I realistically can be for him?
TLDR; My husband hates my "increasingly extreme" traditional views and I dont know how to reconcile this
So why does my own husband hate it? He says it's disgusting I see myself as an object, he doesnt understand the change, he hates that I'm "belittling" myself. But I've seen how efficient and smart he is compared to me, why should i be under his direction forever? Why else are most successful families patriarchal? What's so wrong with being an object if its just what nature designed me to be? I've realized that as much as I used to resent being what they call a "trad wife", its all I'm meant for. Nothing bigger. I dont know how to make him see. He just gets more upset when im stressed about housework not being good enough or noticing I gained 5lbs from my 21BMI position and deciding it may be best to move down to BMI 19 where there's less space for face fat abd getting too pudgy. He acts lije its so disturbing, "when did i ask you to do this? What makes you think I want you that skinny?" Uh, because why wouldn't you? Youre a man. I'm VERY aware he hates fat women, what's the big deal if I want to optimize and be as skinny as I realistically can be for him?
TLDR; My husband hates my "increasingly extreme" traditional views and I dont know how to reconcile this
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