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Why the 1950s? Unpacking My Connection to a Bygone Era
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When I tell people that I am dedicating the next 42 weeks to becoming a “perfect housewife,” they often assume I am simply playing dress-up. When I tell them I am specifically modeling my life after the 1950s ideal, they often ask: Why look backward? In a modern world obsessed…
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My Hopes for the Future: A Letter to My Future Husband
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To the man I haven’t met yet, I don’t know your name, and I don’t know where you are right now. But I know who you are. You are a man who remembers—or perhaps yearns for—a time when the world made sense. You are a man who values strength, order,…
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Addressing the Doubters: My Response to Skepticism
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When you decide to reinvent your life at 72, people have questions. When you decide to reinvent it by trading a lifetime of masculine privilege for a life of domestic servitude and 1950s-style submission, people have judgments. I have heard the whispers. I know the skepticism. “Why would you give…
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The Financial Realities of My Dream (And Why It’s Not About Money)
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n the world of modern dating, the first questions people often ask are, “What do you do?” and “What do you bring to the table financially?” It is an age of two-income households, where marriage is often treated like a merger between two corporations. But I am not a corporation.…