I was just looking through the search form at some of FreeAtLast's posts, and one of the responses:

"For my insecure, Mormonism-'brainwashed', over-controlling TBM sister, it's always been: "We went to college for three years to get a technologist's diploma, then we did two years of university to get the mechanical engineering degree. After that, we went to night school for four years - while working and fulfilling family and church responsibilities - to get an MBA."

Sounds so much like one of the Stepford wives, responding to the main character when asked if she doesn't feel like she's wasting her life as a housewife:

"No, I don't. Frank and I are a unit, and together we're doing electrical engineering research, and maintaining a clean comfortable home, and raising two children, and doing important community work through the Men's Association."

Uh HUH....

In the Stepford Wives, that wouldn't be possible for her to "get it in a few years." But to tell you why would spoil the entire story. It's a great (if creepy) read.

You know, I'm beginning to question poster's stories more than I did several months back. Not out loud, of course, in case I'm wrong, but there are some things people I am unfamiliar with say on the board that lack authenticity for me. There have also been some manic-strange posters that I could tell needed some serious medication. But I try as best I can to take people at face value and give benefit of the doubt.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/11/2011 06:01AM by suckafoo.

Sharing Facebook is a little weird. I think a little independence goes a long way. My husband used to police the things I said and make comments to me like, "Don't say you had a cup of great coffee this morning to all your Facebook friends." I "unfriended" him about a year ago. We like having a little bit of independence. Being joined at the hip all the time is not all its cracked up to be.

I thank God everyday I was born to nonmember parents and a mom who drilled it into me about the logic of getting a degree and a career to support myself before I married and that I didn't fall for any of the breed 'em young shit when I was at YBU for my last two years of college AND I GRADUATED. :-)

I've heard mormon women talk like that before "when we were in college," or "we are in law school," etc.

I just want to say,"um, excuse me, but your husband is in college, you are an ignorant, uneducated, brainwashed dolt." I don't feel that way about all housewives, I feel like my (ex)husband being able to get through college was an accomplishment on my part too, because I went through a lot during those years. But I have a hard time with women who have no educational goals for themselves and think they're getting an education through osmosis because they're cooking dinner for their hubby every night.

My TBM friends do it all the time, and yeah it creeps me out and makes me sad.

The male equivalent is the husband talking about "our" pregnancy, and "we're" in the first trimester and "we're having really bad morning sickness. They just love sharing.