A single mother speaks out on how the tradwife lifestyle led to her divorce
Sporting retro 50s hairstyles and cinched aprons, tradwife influencers have taken over a pocket of the internet.
These traditional wives who showcase 30-second videos of homemade sourdough bread content, and other glimpses into the making of a perfect home, are no ordinary stay-at-home moms. They steadfastly believe in traditional gender roles. That means staying devoted to housework and taking care of the children and being subservient to their working husbands.
Enitza Templeton of Littleton, Colorado, embodied the tradwife lifestyle for 10 years. At 4 a.m., she would start making bread and begin prep for the days meals always from scratch. The mother of four would do all of the household chores, while her husband focused solely on breadwinning.
Now, after escaping a life that was miserable and unfulfilling, Templeton shares her story with her social media following and podcast listeners to help other women who find themselves in similar situations and want a new life.
Social media can make everything look really pretty, because its a 30-second clip, but 30 seconds out of 10 years really omits a lot of the ugliness in those relationships, she said.
Templeton, now 41, said she was raised as an evangelical Christian, believing that a husband had authority over his wife. But today, she is a divorced single mom by choice and advocates for women who wish to break free from a relationship dynamic that all too easily can create an extreme power imbalance.
