You’ve articulated ideas that I’ve been pondering for awhile.
In high school I knew what I really wanted was to be a wife and mother, but I told no one. It was unthinkable to not have big career plans. I went to college and began my career while jealousy observing other young women who had chosen a different path.
I married at 24 and we had our first baby 10 months later. I worked full time until he was one year old and baby number two was on the way.
I went to my 20th high school reunion pregnant with our sixth. I waddled around so thankful that I gave up my career to be a homeschooling mom. My high school friends have big careers, big homes, big wardrobes and big vacations. I have a big family.
When my husband and I were dating I told him that I had remained a virgin because of a conversation in high school. At track practice some of the girls were talking about who they had slept with. It struck me that chances were none of them had yet met their future husbands. They cheated on him before they knew him. I decided that the one I hoped to marry deserved my faithfulness even before I met him. There were guys who broke things off when they found out my decision. While that was sad, it revealed what they really thought of me.
Only my husband valued me and saw my decision as a gift.
The lies of feminism hurt women.
Your post reminds me of one of my old friends telling me about all the things I’d never have if I got married and had kids and I replied to her that she was probably right but that she forgot that I’d also never die alone.
A wealth of love is true wealth!
God bless and Keep you and yours!
Nonsense! You gave up nothing. You changed careers ... for the better, IMO.
The idea that changing careers from some paying office job to wife/mother constitutes "giving up" something, or "settling" for something less is part of the feminist twaddle that has infested our society and degraded it.