Wayne McAurthur@PLx_QMx
Indeed. As several brothers have already noted, our wards and even much of the Church culture today feel noticeably more effeminate than they did in the Greatest Generation and earlier.
What changed?
Men still carry the same divine drive our Creator placed in us: to build, provide spiritually and temporally, and come home to a refuge of peace, joy, and love. We will sacrifice anything for that. But today we’re expected to do it all while the home front has shifted.
A man wants to walk through the door after busting his back all day and find:
a beautiful wife who has tended the domestic life with joy,
children being taught truth at home (not handed over to public schools, social media, or government influence),
a warm meal, real conversation, and edification together as a family.
That home becomes his sanctuary and the family’s. An incredible wife and mother is the key.
Instead, too many of us come home to a second shift of laundry, cooking, cleaning, home/vehicle repairs, and exhaustion, while careers pull both spouses in opposite directions. As a single man I already carry every temporal responsibility alone. So brothers like me, young and middle-aged, are asking the honest question: What real value does this arrangement give me, my future wife, or our children?
We’d simply become covenant-keeping roommates who pass each other in the hallway, chase money, and let the world raise the kids. Children in that environment learn that careers and screens matter more than covenants and connection. We already see the rotting fruit of it.
I remain single precisely because I refuse to build a home where my children are shaped by public schooling, social media, government regulation, and an effeminate theology. I’m holding out for the divine pattern, and I know many good men are doing the same.
And on a sarcastic yet pragmatic note; women, go get your educations, advanced education, build your careers, chase that might dollar, enslave yourselves to debt and buy your fancy cars, your fancy townhomes, raise your dog or your kittens, join your yoga classes and hang out with your girlfriends and travel, just keep chasing that dollar and busting azz cuz you're contributing to the continued exponential increased gains in my financial and real estate portfolios.
