A YOUNG WOMAN who became a trad wife after finishing school has revealed how her life has left her with no real experience. Alice, now 25, took to social media revealing how her strict upbringing and trad wife lifestyle meant she knew nothing about the world now. Alice became a wife at the tender age of 19 and soon gave birth to her oldest son Fern.
A few years later she gave birth to her second son, but her marriage fell apart and she ended up leaving. Now the single mum-of-two was left learning about life again - form how to date in the modern world to financially supporting her children. The term 'trad wife' is short for traditional wife - meaning the practice of patriarchal sex roles within marriages.
Mimicking relationships in the past, the husband acts as the main breadwinner in the family, whilst the wife stays at home to look after the children, clean and make the family's meals. The lifestyle has been glamorised in recent months on Instagram and TikTok, as influencers share their lives as 'trad wives' with their followers, but, until now not many women from this community have shared the realities of what happens when things don't turn out as expected. Alice, who share's two kids with her ex-husband, made a joke about her circumstances.
She wrote: "Me trying to distract him from the fact I have the life experience of an infant," as she danced in her kitchen. "Wasn’t allowed to leave the house for anything other than school when I lived with my parents, then moved o.
