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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Social media changes everything. 70 years ago, you married the guy from your neighborhood or your secretary at work. Maybe you got a dumpy loser, but he had a job and your best friends’ husband were kind of dumpy too, anyway. Now you are exposed 24/7 to other women’s hot and rich and funny boyfriends on TikTok, but hey he is really sweet to her too! People think social media creates envy, but it really just elevates dating standards to incredible heights most average men will never meet. You see a TikTok SAHM (blonde, petite, with three adorable children and a huge house her cute husband’s salary pays for), but your Tinder date takes you to a hip coffee shop, let’s you buy your own drink, waxes poetic about his band and is “in between jobs”…[/quote]

I think people don’t realize most of those TikTok / IG sahms are Mormon. I’m not Mormon, but I have a few Mormon mom friends and the stereotype I would make is that Mormon men are raised to prioritize marriage and family, including financially supporting a large family. The Mormon moms I know have incredibly strong social networks in the “it takes a village” model.  Most east coast / mid Atlantic hipster white dudes may be ambitious and educated, but their ambition is more individual rather than focused on a family unit. Similarly, a lot of DMV area women move here for work and while they have friends who can help in an emergency that is nowhere near the support of being assigned a circle of women in your ward who will drive your kids to sports when your husband is traveling for work because you cleaned her house and brought dinner  when she sprained her ankle. [/quote]

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