Key Points
The show started as a saccharine docu-soap about an unorthodox family trying to fit into an increasingly modern world..
But these marriages too have been disappointments, as younger gen Xers all the way down to elder gen Zs are finding out. 2023 was our first real post-pandemic year: we went back to work, back to our social lives, back to travel, but all that came following a traumatic collective experience..
On TikTok, women talk about the things killing their marriages, like weaponized incompetence, or when ones husband is somehow unable to wash a dish or find the spare batteries..
On the r/Marriage forum on Reddit, theres a steady march of women in their late 20s and early 30s who are inching themselves closer and closer to the reality of divorce as they realize their husbands vast limitations..
In that same vein, theres a small army of tradwives online, mostly young women who bake bread, rear children and tend to the home, returning to the very family structure that led so many women to distrust marriage in the first place..
