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🗓️ 1 May 2024
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Ep 175 - Choosing to stay home with your kids isn't the most glamorous job. In fact, there aren't promotions, raises, or a paycheck. You won't get an annual company party with other employees celebrating your achievements and patting you on the back. Most often the opposite is true. You're left exhausted by the end of the day. The accolades are few. The rewards aren't always visible. So why do women choose homemaking and motherhood? Is it possible that this path is even MORE fulfilling than most other career choices?
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0:00.0 | The other day I saw a reel on Instagram and the first shot is of a woman. |
0:03.6 | She's like got her hair dyed. She's done like a black sexy dress. She looks all put together and |
0:07.6 | she has a wedding band and she slides it on her hand and immediately the screen |
0:11.6 | flashes to her like you know in working clothes in the |
0:14.2 | house like doing the laundry looking exhausted and then it flashes back to her |
0:18.3 | pulling the wedding band off of her hand and her looking like oh my goodness you know |
0:21.7 | like that's what marriage is all about and |
0:23.3 | then she kind of slides the wedding band back on and then flashes to her like in the |
0:27.0 | kitchen cooking you know for her family and then the same thing she pulls it off and |
0:30.4 | she's like you know like shocked like that's what marriage is all about that's |
0:33.8 | what taking care for family is all about and this happens a couple different times |
0:36.9 | of her putting the wedding band on and it flashing to her like doing some sort of |
0:40.6 | homemaking task and then ultimately the last scene is her taking the |
0:44.3 | wedding band off and throwing it in the trash can and the comment section was |
0:49.0 | interesting let me just tell you it was interesting to see the the different takes and the different |
0:55.4 | perspectives you have some people who are like yes girl you know like you do you |
0:59.6 | like married life family life is such a drag pursue you want, like you don't have to do that old ball and chain situation. |
1:07.0 | Other people were kind of making fun of her, like, oh yeah, because married women are the only ones that have to do laundry or clean their |
1:13.3 | toilets or eat right like actually those are things single married we all have to do we all have to |
1:19.3 | clean we all have to eat we all have to like take care of ourselves and then other people were totally coming to |
1:24.0 | the fence of like the fact that the home is valuable and children are valuable and |
1:29.3 | managing that well you know loving and taking care of people is a valuable job and a career |
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