Are you the wife?

I have to reply to this one.  I can only assume that you must have encountered the same individual I did awhile ago.  "I feel your pain!"  I would like to pose the question, "Why would highly intelligent so called "traditionalist" men who don't have jobs,  impose upon traditional catholic families for hand-outs?  THAT I would like to know!

Why do some "trad" men refuse to work (or are working odd jobs) but see nothing wrong with this?  Like they need time to research and write that magna opus and expect the wife to carry the load?  And they really believe they are not committing mortal sin and they don't think anyone should complain.  The wife has to support the family but he still wants to be in charge.  

Like that guy Mr. Skimpole from Bleak House...."I'm just a child you see, I'm innocent.....I'm not capable."

Forget it!

I understand your frustration with what sounds like your husband's neglect of his duty to provide and perhaps his spending too much time on his other roles.  However, it sounds like you are wanting to rebel against his authority, because he's not doing everything you think he should be doing.  Even if you  are right about his character flaw, how do you think your making comments that seem to imply a desire to undermine his authority will help you get a husband who is ready, willing and able to perform all of his God given roles, in your family?  

In other words, threatening your husband with rebelliion, probably isn't going to make your life any better, than it is right now.  

 

You are still assuming that this is a "wife".

Why should an unmarried woman complain about a situation she is not compelled to enter?

She could be a perspective woman who doesn't want to be the bread winner of the family.

In that case she should hope that more opportunities are provided to young Catholic men to support families.  A good thing to do would be to complain to the rich people and ask why they're so damned stingy and resentful of fellow Catholics.

 Maybe she actually wants to be a mom who stays home with her children.

In that case, (according to someone here) her husband must make over $100,000 a year and be able to afford a half million dollar house.

Sounds like a formula for old maids and single mothers to me.  And in fact I think that suits certain people just fine.  They would rather women be single mothers or old maids than be married with children to men who (in their minds) aren't good enough.

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  Maybe she actually wants to be a mom who stays home with her children.


In that case, (according to someone here) her husband must make over $100,000 a year and be able to afford a half million dollar house.

Sounds like a formula for old maids and single mothers to me.  And in fact I think that suits certain people just fine.  They would rather women be single mothers or old maids than be married with children to men who (in their minds) aren't good enough.

Oh, really....sounds very worldly and superficial imho.  But then again, that is the way of the world today.

[2 Thessalonians 3:10]  

For also when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

Do you think St. Paul meant by that the unemployed should starve?

It sounds like it's about meddling/busybodies/idle hands = devil's workshop kind of thing.  So, get busy doing something;  don't just stick your nose in everybody else's business, but not mind your own.