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sadsongsandwaltzes:

Sometimes I look through perverse “trad” accounts and I have to wonder if they don’t actually just hate traditional living and that their accounts only exist for the purpose of tearing it down. It is so disgusting what I see on these accounts sometimes. But regardless if these people are sincere or not, they’re still basically sharing instruction manuals on how to abuse and it makes my stomach churn.

So let’s set some things straight. Ladies:

• You are not “property.” You are still a human being created in the image of God. Your husband can’t just “do with you as he pleases” as you are not just some old rag doll.
• The family does not revolve around the husband. The family is a complete unit. Yes, you should dedicate your life to serving the family— as should your husband. That’s the whole point. If your husband isn’t sacrificing for your needs too, he’s not a godly husband.
• In fact, he should be sacrificing up to the point of laying down his life for you. He is to love you as Jesus loves his church. If he is not considering your needs, then he is not following that model. True leadership in the Christian sense is about serving others, not taking what you can from them.
• God gave you a brain, too. You are allowed to have your own opinions and feelings. Approaching your husband to tell him what you are thinking isn’t “speaking out of turn.” How is he supposed to know how to care for you if he doesn’t know what you want or need? Besides, you two should constantly be growing together. How do you expect to do that if you don’t know what the other person is interested in or something new that they’ve learned?
• Harkening back to my first point, that means you also aren’t a sex toy. He cannot abuse your body. Neither are you a slave.
• It is not your husband’s place to “discipline” you. It is his job to correct you when you are wrong, yes, and it’s also your job to correct him when he’s wrong. But not discipline. He is not your father. This is ridiculous. That is perverted and disgusting. Stop it with this nonsense.
• You are allowed to separate if he’s abusing you. Please get help. I’m serious.

whilomm:

ALT

you know, april fools 2023 IS going to be the 10th anniversary of the original. im just saying ya kno.

legendofthehiddenbbc:

roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it:

revolutionarytea:

propalitet:

fathers casually dropping the craziest lore of their lives in the middle of a conversation

My brother and I trying to piece together our dad’s life based on random info he casually brings up once and then never mentions again

When my great grandpa was on his deathbed my grandpa (his son) was with him and says his last words were “I told them they shouldn’t have hanged that woman. Well by damn they’re paying now” and no one in my family knows what the fuck that means

My grandmother was harassing me about the dangers of online dating, and my grandpa was like, “Oh fer crying out loud, leave her alone. My parents met online, she’ll be fine.” Apparenly my great grandparents were both telegraph operators who would chat over the line in between messages and fell in love and my great grandma moved halfway across the country to marry a dude she met over the telegraph.

No one alive in the family had ever heard this story until like 70+ years later when I happened to start seeing a dude from OK Cupid.