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Posted on 06/20/2026 3:09:28 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Yesteryear opens by introducing its narrator, Natalie, a 32‑year‑old influencer who amasses millions of followers by posting about her pioneer‑like lifestyle.
Unbeknownst to her audience, staff keep the household running, her marriage is strained, and her children hate being filmed.
One day, she wakes up in a place that looks like her home, except it’s the early 19th century.
As the story develops, Natalie proves anything but content. She meets her husband, Caleb, at a church group. After they marry, she finds herself pregnant at 20 (and with a husband more of a buffoon than she expected).
I left Yesteryear feeling misunderstood...One reviewer wrote that the book made her feel better about judging tradwives because it “proved” tradwives judge her right back.
Unlike Natalie, I’m not fictional. Those who want to “get inside the head” of traditional wives should start by getting to know one.
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Aren’t being a “tradwife” and “influencer” mutually exclusive?
I understand that “tradewife” content could be helpful to some. But would such a person actually call themselves a “tradwide” and would they really post stuff about their family?
Why would they be?
Many traditional wives and mothers have held jobs from time to time.
Good point!
My wife’s friends call her a “tradwife”.
She calls herself “conservative homemaker”.
I call myself blessed.
Much like the person who wrote this book. Very likely they have never had an actual job.
As an aside, I despise the “influencer” nomenclature and I absolutely hate the term “tradwife.”
My wife was a stay at home mom until the kids were deep into school years. We had her mom living with us after her Dad passed. We never had to hire a babysitter. My kids grew up knowing their grandmother and all of her kind of eccentric old friends. It made my kids more comfortable about older people—which has served them well in life.
Traditional values are great.
And no…we never churned butter or sewed our own clothes. Although I did show my grandkids how to make butter last fall. They were enthralled by it.
They’re not all fake. A lot of the more or less ‘trad wife’ sites and channels I’ve seen focus on instructing in and popularizing domestic skills. They don’t get on the internet to sensationalize and expose their families’ intimate matters.
I saw someone relate tradwife to BDSM not really a normal classic wife.
Meaning she has to be ready to be bent over and do whatever he wants (like a submissive).
I don’t know much about it and what they truly believe and if this is just redefining terms like the left likes to do, but it was a conservative that said it.
On the surface Tradwife sounds great for us, but then again there are extremes to it I’m sure.
Only if they identified as some kind of a trailer.
BTW: if you want a tradwife (1950s wife as what I think of)...marry a Japanese woman. I did that and it’s amazing.
They respect gender and roles. You’ll want to put them on a pedastal and respect them. And they will take care of you.
>> ...But would such a person actually call themselves a “tradwide”
I suppose one might, if she was really fat.
My Aunt Elsie in Durham County made her own butter.
When I was a boy, I loved to visit her farm.
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LOL.
There is a difference, in my mind at least, between an "Influencer" and someone who is just teaching you how to do stuff. The first is generally fake because they have to be perfect and no one is. The second will show you the mess or the fact they did not count right and other mess ups that happen. You don't leave thinking that is something I could never do. You leave having learned something. Every ones elses opinion may vary.
And I have to admit the phrase, now apparently a word, "tradwife" makes my neck itch. I am just normal. No need to slap a cutesy label on it.
...and hobbies.
I am not familiar with the meaning you attach to ‘influencer’. To me it’s just someone who popularizes, advertises or reviews something online.
I think ‘trad wife’ is just typical of the shorthand people use nowadays to condense concepts. Every generation and period manipulates language in it’s way.
Yes.
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