InChristAlone
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Yes you are right I do shepherd the home thanks for putting it in that way, really puts a sense of purpose in a woman's duties at home. I was mainly referring to having to make hard parenting decisions alone. Him working from home has been one of the key factors in changing our home life, he is still able to be there when the boys are not listening to me. I am deferring to him more and more instead of being in my masculine energy solving problems all day.That's really the natural order: the woman rules (shepherds) the house; the man rules (shepherds) the woman. All are equal, none are inferior to another.
That is why I over romanticize primitive lifestyles! Such cohesiveness and purpose and fulfillment!Yes, not being around for your kids is another very hard thing about modern life. I saw firsthand in primitive societies father and children work together. For example a herdsman may bring some of his kids along, or even his whole family and they will camp out together in the mountains. As another example, farmers are not too far from home when working in the field, the kids often visit dad whenever they feel like or they work with him in the field. Even if dad is away there’s grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, etc. so you’re never alone. In the village I felt this feeling of togetherness that I never feel in the west.
Now constraint this to the west with factories and offices dad is away and comes home tired and burned out. Grandma and grandpa live far away. Sometimes there’s no dad at all.
So no wonder I see shocking statistics that 1/4 of zoomer teenagers have tried to kill themselves. Kids are extremely isolated and lonely here in the west.