Simon Dillon
1 min readJan 17, 2024

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An excellent article. No woman (or man for that matter) has to defend these kinds of personal choices. Everyone else can take a long walk off a short pier if they think their opinion has any bearing on your situation.

My wife was a full-time mother for eighteen years with our two children, and at that point I was the sole breadwinner. When confronted by activist types, my wife said she could not give twin defecations about some half-baked (and as you point out, constantly mutating) feminist ideal, as it had bugger-all to do with her personal life. She was not required to find paid work "because feminism", and was quite happy. Nor did she give an airborne fornication if this upset others outside our marriage, because it was none of their damn business.

As it happens, now she's back in a paid job she's brilliant at, fulfilled and happy. Again, this is a personal choice based on changing circumstances (one child now at university, the other is 15 and perfectly capable of managing with her at work). My wife enjoyed her time as a full-time mother and has no regrets, but now times have changed.

Great to hear you're enjoying your present circumstances, and based on other stories I've read by you, your husband sounds like a great bloke. Good for you (and him). :)

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon

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