A SELF-PROCLAIMED stay-at-home housewife and homemaker has riled TikTok users by revealing she does all the chores, would never get a job, and hopes her daughter grows up to be just like her.
Grace, who posts using the handle @AJoyFilledHome, regularly posts videos of her ceaselessly baking and cleaning to please her husband while he works to bring home the bacon.
The domestic homemaker revealed that she had “traded a career for the work of the home”, and that although people accused her of “wasting her potential”, she’s “forever grateful for this lifestyle”.
While her husband works 15 hour days, she does all the housework and raises their children.
In a recent clip, Grace shared the “ways I prepare for my husband to come home from work”, filming herself tidying up the house, making him a hot meal, setting the atmosphere with music, refreshing her hair and make up and putting on a “cheerful attitude”.
In another, she filmed herself preparing chocolate chip scones, adding the caption: “one thing about me is that I’m happiest serving my family”.
The devoted wife also shares clips recommending women should “fix your blue-collar man’s dinner for when he comes home”, preparing hearty measles like the American classic biscuits and gravy.
The set-up means that the family have to make certain sacrifices given they only have one income.
In one video, Grace revealed that they don’t really go on holiday, only have basic TV channels, and thrift almost everything they wear and furnish their home with.
And one of the most controversial elements is that Grace seemingly wants her daughter to grow up and be just like her, shunning a career so she can look after a man.
The housewife wrote: “I hope my daughter grows up knowing she doesn’t need to go to college to be educated, [and] that she doesn’t have to have a career to have value.
She added that her daughter should know “that it’s okay to want to be a wife and mother”, and “I pray she sees the work of the home as ministry”.
Grace’s traditional views often result in her videos being flooded with negative comments, trolling her for being “anti-feminist” and a bad mum.
“I would rather die,” wrote one user. “This TikTok and comments make me sad women are still happy to do this.”
Some questioned what would happen if the relationship broke down given Grace has no source of her own income.
“Then you find out he’s been having an affair with the neighbour,” one jibed, “and you’re financially dependent on him and have to put up with him to survive.”
“It’s 2023, hello!” another added. “You are happy to be a servant?”
But Grace also has plenty of fans who admire and aspire to her traditional role.
“I absolutely love this!” one said. “I love seeing other women sharing how they honour their husband.”
“I think this is adorable!” another added. “I do the same. It’s one of the ways I show him love.”
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September 14, 2023 at 04:19PM
from The Sun