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I saw a post yesterday from some SAHM with two young kids, who's influencer channel is apparently filled with tradwife shit about supporting your husband in all his works, etc. And she's crying because her husband wants a divorce, has cut off her credit cards, she doesn't have any money of her own, doesn't have any credit of her own, she hasn't worked in 15 years and has no idea how she's going to support herself.
sounds like she managed to complete her tradwife wish. congrats to her
SAHM?
Stay At Home Mom
Thanks 🤜🏼🔥🤛🏽
Any time, compadre.
Awwww, love that for her!
You should post a link to community. I'd love to see it.
You can post it if you want. Sorry for the reddit link. The copy I saw was on imgur but search just brought up the reddit one.
She shouldn't worry. She'll get half, and alimony, and child support.
In my experience the tears are most likely aimed at prepping her followers for her GoFundMe requests.
The court will order those things to be paid. Her actually getting the money is an entirely different matter.
If you think that's not a reason to worry, you haven't tried to live on a fraction of a salary. You think costs are linear?
Cohabitation saves a lot of money. Divorce breaks that.
No I haven't tried to live on a fraction of a salary [edit: actually I was a waiter and bartender for years so technically I did live on a fraction of a salary :)..]. But she tried to live on zero salary doing the trad wife method. Did you miss the point of ops post?
So she shouldn't worry because... she deserves it for choosing a lifestyle?
Oh right, I forgot the rule. People who make choices we don't agree with should have their children suffer. That keeps slipping my mind.
I don't agree with the idea that a couple should strictly split responsibilities and not be able to survive without each other, especially along antiquated gender lines. But I'm still going to have empathy for a broken home with children.
You're not here for the, leopards ate my face, part of this are you?
That depends where she is. Alimony is rare in Texas, for example. She might get a small amount of spousal support for a few years, but she's going to need to start a career soon.
she better start working, her being influencer meaning she had the means to have nannies, and pretend like she is not financially well off, she just realize her meal ticket(her tradwife influencer lifestyle) is about to come to an end. this is what the people on that reddit said, these people are well off, is just that she came to realize she isnt going to be able to grift anymore.
So you're saying living on half of one salary is functional these days? Most folks I know can't survive on two full salaries.
How much is one salary, to you?
Median income for my Canadian province is $91,000 per year. So living on $45,500 per year Canadian which would be about $1000 dollars less than the statistics from the employment and social development Canada website below for 3 persons (I'm including the two kids)
https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/foreign-workers/caregiver/financial-ability.html
I live in on of the richest Canadian provinces and you still probably couldn't pull it off.
I'm pulling my median salary from here.
https://www03.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/hmip-pimh/en/TableMapChart/TableMatchingCriteria?GeographyType=Country&GeographyId=1&CategoryLevel1=Population%2C+Households+and+Housing+Stock&CategoryLevel2=Household+Income&ColumnField=HouseholdIncomeRange&RowField=Province&SearchTags%5B0%5D.Key=Households&SearchTags%5B0%5D.Value=Number&SearchTags%5B1%5D.Key=Statistics&SearchTags%5B1%5D.Value=AverageAndMedian
any other questions?
Yeah one question. I said I was a bartender and waiter. I made about 20 maybe 30 grand gross probably a year with tips. It was a while ago, granted, but the cost of everything increased quite disproportionately to wages since then anyway and you seem like you're trying real hard to prove something.
So my questions is, what the fuck are you on about?
Were you raising kids? You're making this super passive aggressive comment about the wife getting alimony and shit in a relationship where she's the main caregiver for the kids. The whole thing comes across as super sexist. So what I'm "on about" is not only is your comment super sour and sad sounding, its also way out of whack with economic realities on the ground. So what are YOU on about is what I'm trying to figure out?