Yes, leave us TF alone. Go be a passport bro. No one will miss you. |
Chosen fatherlessness can be far healthier than having a person in a man’s body in the vicinity but not acting as a father. |
My daughter is at an all-girls’ school with probably higher than usual numbers of SMBC families. The girls are some of the top academic performers and leaders in the classroom, and their moms are really nice and seem happy. The moms counterintuitively seem to have more obligations but less stress than those of us with nominal partners. |
Didn’t catch that, what exactly was the foreign man’s role and responsibilities in that household if his working wife was doing everything her self on the homefront? And your solution is what? Quit doing anything else but homefront stuff? Why? Does he suddenly appreciate you more, arrange housekeepers or so something not for himself only?! lol, thx for the tradwife or emerging markets hometown post. |
Exactly, and check out the human rights and women’s rights violations elsewhere! We be missing out murica! Get them back in the home where they belong. |
+1 Not that they’ll ever admit that’s exactly what happened in exactly that order. They’re too ego centric and delusional to handle the truth. |
| Thinking back, are there any red flags when you were dating? Lessons we could pass along to our sons and daughters. |
Lots of people had neglectful, ignorant fathers they never depended on for anything but a warm body on the sofa and some paycheck. No coaching, no emotional support, no real conversations, no worries or concerns, no parenting or disciplining, no care. |
"America is under the boot of a fascist regime. I love and respect other cultures." "Yeah, same. I love other cultures so much I want to marry into them." "NO NOT LIKE THAT!!!" |
Ain’t it fascinating that they neglected and emotionally abused women are still so concerned for and manly caring for their children. Think like a man. Don’t care at all! School will handle it. The end. |
| Quiet quitting was the only thing that got me through the last 2 years of my marriage before I divorced. |
Because coparenting with a divorced selfish a-hole IS THE SAME as living with a negligent selfish a-hole, for you and the kids. |
| Tell him to take a five year assignment abroad. It’s the best for everyone |
30-40% of pregnancies are fatherless children right out of the gate. Then if the married with children births, half of those opt out of anything fatherly. |
Yes. We met in professional school. He relied on the structure of professional school socializing for a life outside of studying. He wasn’t proactive socially and took advantage of the effort of others. Same in situations like study groups or cooperative projects. He was mild-mannered and nice so people didn’t question it, me included. Big procrastinator about anything that wasn’t fun after we graduated but were still dating. There was always something work-related that took precedent but it was sort of ok because we were hustling to build our careers. He relied on a future provider image to cover the fact that he was a taker or just lazy in the present. Kind of mean about money in a way that was confusing. Would spend generously on friends’ wedding presents, group trips, public gifts for family. But was nickel and dime-y about splitting expenses even when we had a difference in salaries or even if I had been more generous about a previous expense. And this is embarrassing, but selfish in bed. I took it as assertive at first and thought I just needed to communicate my needs more or something. Or that we were still getting to know what we each needed. That selfishness was indicative of literally everything that happened later. |