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April 3, 2025 14 mins
New Trend: Trad wives
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Show.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
We will do it again tomorrow morning.

Speaker 3 (00:02):
You know the times by now seven twenty and twenty,
and then of course DJ Popdog has tickets in the
three pm hour to go see Jay Balvin. I had
been seeing a few female influencers post about this on Instagram.
I know it's a massive thing on TikTok. I'm still
learning what is a trad wife?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Basically, it's a wife who who stays home and the
husband goes out and works. It's like your traditional wife
of like the fifties.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
What's it called trad wife? A trad wife?

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Why did they change the name from like, wasn't it
like a housewife?

Speaker 5 (00:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
But I think this one is more traditionally based, where
like the woman really doesn't work, she traps a home.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
And it's it's a thing like it trends. Are you
a trad wife? Are you not?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
We found a video where a trad wife explains the
number one rule of a trad wife interesting interesting times
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tradwife where you consider yourself one let's shot dadly and

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Speaker 6 (01:12):
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Speaker 2 (01:21):
Hi, everybody, good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
I don't know if you're anything like me, but you've
come across this trending thing called a trad wife and
you're like, what the hell is a tradwife? Actually wrote
it down on a posty because I was like, what
the hell is a trad wife? But I had seen
so many people making the little comment about it. Well,
I'm a tradwife. I'm a tradwife. If you don't know

(01:45):
what one is, I'm still learning myself, or maybe you
consider yourself one six one seven nine three one one
nine four five to join in the convo.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
This saying tradwife has been trending.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
It in its easiest, simplest terms, it's a trade wife.
This is a woman who considers herself a trad wife,
and this is what she claims is.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
The number one rule for all trad wives. Number one
rule as a trad wife. This is your duty as
a wife.

Speaker 7 (02:14):
A man's home is his castle, so he should be
treated as a king.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
He's working a stressful.

Speaker 7 (02:20):
Job, maybe working long hours, just so he can provide
for you and the family, so he rightfully deserves peace.
That being said, it's every wife's duty to appreciate her
man and all his hard work.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Show him how much you truly appreciate him. Okay, he
is your king and you are his queen. That is
your duty. If that's the duty, being a trad wife sucks.
It's very one sided.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
It doesn't feel like a true partnership.

Speaker 6 (02:46):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Oh, like, listen, I think there's something to it. We
all want a little peace at the house, but that's
gotta go both ways.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, it sounds like the piece is just a one
sided thing. Now, going back to the fifties, maybe this work.

Speaker 6 (02:58):
Then.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
I think society has completely change. It's well balanced, cause
back then was you know, the wife is staying at home.
He takes care of the crib. You handle the crib.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
I bring the money to supply whatever we need to do,
and I just come sit down, get my feet rugged,
get fed, we chill. I'll go to bed, wake up
the maximuning and do the same thing.

Speaker 6 (03:15):
You take care of the household.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I do not mean to offend when I say this,
because there are some women out here that that's the
goal for them to be a stay at home mom,
to be a stay at home wife, to trad wife
it up that if that brings you joy and that
brings you happiness, that's cool. Me. Nope, that's not bringing
me joy. That's actually that's sucking the life about me.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
I will say, Like in other cultures, trad wife is
still a thing like Dominicans, I can tell you they're
still going back traditional. Those men can do whatever they
want there and like the wise my complaint, but they're
still like they're they're just adherent to all the men.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
It doesn't sound fun, sounds spooky to me.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
And again, I do want my husband to feel like
a man of the house.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
There's no there's no like. I have no qualms about that.
You are the man of the house for sure.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
I want to let him.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
But I do think there needs to be a little
bit of a partnership here. That's her main thing is
like my husband needs he's the king.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
He deserves peace. Bitch, I deserve peace too. Okay.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Uh, Mary is in Rhode Island, Mayor. It's tough, the
trad wife thing, Oh.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
It is, God go off.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
I just can't believe this is a trend happening right now.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
In this moment.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Oh, it's big.

Speaker 8 (04:33):
It's in this political climate that women are still right.
If you think that way, great and that's what you
want to do. But I'm tired. I work full time.
I'm a mom. I want my house to be a
castle too, right right, call.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Me Cinderella because I definitely want to feel that as well.

Speaker 8 (04:55):
There's a trad husband?

Speaker 6 (04:56):
Is that a tread listen?

Speaker 2 (04:58):
I can't pick that not. You know what's messed up? Though,
this is very messed up.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
If my husband was like I want to quit my
job and be like a trad husband and stay at
home dad, that my vagina would shrivel, which.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Is messed up. I don't want that either. I don't
want that either, Horualy.

Speaker 8 (05:13):
Though, No, I want you out and contributing to here.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
We could build the castle together.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yes, let this be our a kingdom. Mary, thanks for
the call. Uh Staph is in Chelmsford, Hey staff, good morning.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Had you heard about the trad wife thing.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
I've never heard of it anymore, because you know what,
I don't hear about traditional men do tell go on what?
So it's like okay, and I feel like a lot
of men are entitled now these days. They want women
to duel the whole nine while they're doing the bare minimum.
And I can understand if there's like these real hard
working men and they're paying all the bills and you're

(05:48):
staying home and you're taking care of the kids, But like, nowadays,
where do you even see that? Like I can understand
men who are probably like in the late thirties that
that probably still exists. But I'm twenty five years old.
I could, I could probably maybe I'm looking in the
wrong areas, but I do not see traditional men nowadays.
They just want to feel entitled. And I'm working just
as much as all as they are. I'm just as

(06:09):
tired as they are. Where's my treatment? Where where's me
being treated as a queen? You want to be a king?
Where's my queen treatment?

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, listen, stuff I do. They're out there and thank
you for the call. I think a lot of women
that listen to this show sometimes give off like broken
and hurt and you guys have been through things, so
have I.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
But they're out there.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
And I just refuse to to not say that there
is another side to this where I do believe like
I married a great man and you can find that too.
They're out there. It might be hard to find. Yeah,
but there isn't a decide to this. They're not all bad.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
I also think like, if you have a bad experience
with one dude, you should like change your pattern for
the other one. I think some girls go back to
the same consistency that they've always known, expecting a different and.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
That makes me sad because stuff's like guys won't meet
out here doing the whole nine when they're doing the
bare minimum. I think eventually she's just twenty five. Eventually
she'll find somebody that will meet here in the middle.
But I do feel like a lot of the women
sometimes we have these topics. They call him they're hurt
the place right Yep, Melissa is in pvty Heyless, Hello.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Are you a trad wife?

Speaker 3 (07:23):
No?

Speaker 5 (07:23):
I am not.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
What do you how do you feel about it that,
Oh you hadn't got this is crazy because this is
a big thing, and I'm shocked that we haven't had
somebody call in being like I'm a trad wife and.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
I love it.

Speaker 8 (07:37):
Yeah, I wasn't going to give my two cents, but
I was listening as soon as you put up that
lady saying her like the number one rule, I was like,
all right, I gotta call in now. But I just
wanted to say. I just wanted to say to go
off of like what you were saying too about how
there are good men out there and I recently just
found one, and like I'm twenty six now, so going like,

(07:58):
after all these just you know, relationships that didn't work
and whatnot, and dealing with all these horrible men, there
are good men out there, and there are men that
will treat you the way that you deserve to be treated.
You just have to be patient wait for it. But
but yeah, I totally agree with the sense of treating
your man like a king. And you know, I totally

(08:20):
agree with all that, but if it's reciprocated, agreed, I like,
I like that narrative.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
And you know what, Mollist, what it sounds to me
is you were messing with boys and you found yourself
a man, which is they're out there.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
That's nice exactly.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, Listen, again, I'm not I'm not saying that to
not treat your to your significant other like they're a
king or a queen. But again I'm including the queen
in there. Let we both have to we gotta, we
gotta find a middle ground.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
I want a trad wife though, I want.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
To hear I'm Can we play another song, sis if
we can get six one seven nine three one four five.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Don't be shy, trad wives. I know you're out there.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
You're probably out running some errands for the house, and
that's cool. Six one seven nine three one one nine
four five. You consider yourself a traditional wife and you
are just running the kingdom? Call me hi, everybody, Family
Affair a perfect song.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
We're talking about being a trad wife.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
It's a it's a trending thing on social media.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
I had heard it referenced a few times. What the
hell is this?

Speaker 3 (09:21):
So we were doing a little bit more digging today. Essentially,
in its in its simplest forms, it is a traditional wife.
It is a stay at home mom, a stay at
home wife who you know, does all of the household
things while big Daddy goes out and makes the money.
If it, if it's for you, that's cool. I'm not
throwing any shade. But not for big momm not for me.

(09:42):
But it is for Becky and Cambridge back. Good morning, babe, Hi,
how are you good?

Speaker 2 (09:48):
I said, listen, I need me.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
I need to talk to a traditional wife because it's
it brings happiness to some.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
You, in fact, are a tradwave. Now had you heard
the term before?

Speaker 6 (09:57):
No, not till this morning.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Okay, So talk to me. Stay at home mom, stay
at home wife, Like, what does your day.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
To day look like?

Speaker 4 (10:06):
Well?

Speaker 6 (10:07):
I recently started working part time in the morning because
my children have gotten older. Okay, but when when they
were younger, you know, I was a stay at home mom.
I took care of the house. I did everything for
my husband and my children. He went out, he paid
all the bills, He's a wonderful father, coach the kids teams.

(10:27):
So it brought me joys. Not It's one of those things.
He has to be the right man. He has to
be the man that makes you feel good about your
role in life.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
And what about you?

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Did you ever feel like lost in that? Did you
ever feel like you didn't have an identity in that?
Like you never had anything for yourself that you were
constantly just giving to everybody else? Or was that enough
for you? No?

Speaker 6 (10:50):
Because I did have my own identity as well, which
was what he didn't. I was still my own person.
I spend had my friends.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Didn't and you weren't like you got that.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
You got out of the house and did your own
things as well by yourself of course.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
And I always went to mom's groups. We have a
lot of local moms groups in Cambridge, okay, where you
can meet with other moms and it's wonderful, wonderful.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well, and like I said, beg for it is it
is for some people. It's it's like I'm not the
type that could do it. But talking to you, like,
it's not like as if you're calling me being like
I hated it and I regret staying at home all
of those years like you did.

Speaker 6 (11:29):
Oh no, I love it, Like it was great. Yeah,
I got to spend so much time with my children.
You didn't have to worry about daycare, not that. Yeah,
I didn't have to worry about any expenses.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
I did you ever have a moment where you were
how many kids you got?

Speaker 6 (11:45):
I have four?

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Did you jesus, did you ever have a moment where
everybody was crying and going crazy and you just were like,
get me the hell out of here, Because I have
those daily and I only have two so I didn't.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
I just didn't know.

Speaker 6 (11:57):
I mean, yeah, it's usually by like kind of the
end of the day when he's coming home, and then
he comes home and you know, he takes it on.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Did he he helped out?

Speaker 5 (12:07):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (12:07):
He did?

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Okay, So would you do the dinners and stuff too?
Or would he help cook?

Speaker 6 (12:11):
Yeah? You would. I usually did that because he'd be
out playing with the kids and like trying to give
me a personal break, and I love cooking, so it
was like my time.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
All right, Becky, Well, thank you for that.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
I mean, listen the way Becky's describing it, it still
doesn't sound something for me.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
But she's the closest you're going to get to the
of how it's supposed to be.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yes, I don't like it. I don't think I could
be the person who wants to be like that. I'm
so used to that being with my wife who's into
her into like just her work and everything like that.
To have a traditional wife like.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
That, but that's all, you know, that's all I know.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Also, on the flip, these women who want to just
stay home because they're lazy and they don't want to
do nothing.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
By the way, and I've seen there's people create content
around that. Yes, like I don't. There's a girl that
I follow that she's married, she's a trophy werfe. She
doesn't have a job, she has they don't even have kids.
She's like, this is what I do all day while my.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Husband works and she goes.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
And so it's the opposite side because yes, some guys
want the traditional wife, but they kind of using it to,
you know, kind of just have somebody to watch the kids.
They don't talk to you, they don't show you no love.
This guy, the last example sounded like the perfect gentleman,
right yeah. And then on the other side there's the
wives who were just like, bro, I don't want to work,
just go make money, give me a card. I can
go shopping, do whatever I want, and just chill. Might

(13:26):
even have a nanny if they have kids, right, and
she's just chilling.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
I think we can all wrap our head around stay
at home mom because again, like that, that daycare, all
those things they cost. So if you're somebody who has
that in you, that you can do it. Like again,
I love my kids more than anything on this planet,
but I need this time outside of like the house,
because you can only play like zombie so many times

(13:51):
be where you do go crazy but stay at home
wife with nothing like that's a special breed because what
are you doing?

Speaker 1 (14:01):
It just sounds so horring and just looking out the
window when the kids are gone and folding and.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
That's like I can't say it like that. Well, hey,
that's all.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
How many times can you go to home goods and
get something different every day? Though? If it's every Wednesday?

Speaker 2 (14:20):
I cool.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
How do you know that that's what drops the new
goods every Wednesday?

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Furn is lying, he's a little trophy white

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Damn ninety four five traffic
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