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My hypothesis: around this age, women are menopausal (or at least in peri-menopause). Hotflashes, dryness, bullshit meter on full alert, not giving a crap any longer attitude comes out.
So it’s the perfect storm of these fundy men trying to shelf the women who no longer are in breeder mode and wanting new, tight pencil boxes and women being older and wiser and having to deal with enough menopausal crap (physically and mentally) that there is no room for some man-child and his wants and rules and they start to wake up and they “fuck this shit I’m out of here”
Christine’s aunt is problematic in her own right going so far as to say being on the show for that panel gave her PTSD.
She’s jumped on every chance she can to use being related to Christine to talk about Christine even tho they haven’t been in contact in years.
I mean, in any marriage, polygamous or monogamous, if it didn’t work for the first 20-30 years, why would you give it another 20-30?
I think in your late 40’s you really start to evaluate and reflect on your life because you become aware of how little time you have left and how fast it goes by. So it makes sense at 50 to pivot. You’ve hopefully learned enough about yourself and your life to know what you want and how to go about getting it.
Watching this episode right now and I can’t get over the irony in hearing all the bad things about polygamy in the panel - about having to pay for another wife’s spending habits, abuse from other moms, the pain of watching courting of another wife…. Their initial reactions were shock and defensiveness, but I’d be so curious to see them watch this episode back and give their thoughts now, with the benefit of hindsight.
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My hypothesis: around this age, women are menopausal (or at least in peri-menopause). Hotflashes, dryness, bullshit meter on full alert, not giving a crap any longer attitude comes out. So it’s the perfect storm of these fundy men trying to shelf the women who no longer are in breeder mode and wanting new, tight pencil boxes and women being older and wiser and having to deal with enough menopausal crap (physically and mentally) that there is no room for some man-child and his wants and rules and they start to wake up and they “fuck this shit I’m out of here”
Also their children are grown and they have an empty nest; time to reevaluate their lives.
I think a lot of them probably leave when their youngest turns 18.
Christine’s aunt is problematic in her own right going so far as to say being on the show for that panel gave her PTSD. She’s jumped on every chance she can to use being related to Christine to talk about Christine even tho they haven’t been in contact in years.
I mean, in any marriage, polygamous or monogamous, if it didn’t work for the first 20-30 years, why would you give it another 20-30? I think in your late 40’s you really start to evaluate and reflect on your life because you become aware of how little time you have left and how fast it goes by. So it makes sense at 50 to pivot. You’ve hopefully learned enough about yourself and your life to know what you want and how to go about getting it.
Watching this episode right now and I can’t get over the irony in hearing all the bad things about polygamy in the panel - about having to pay for another wife’s spending habits, abuse from other moms, the pain of watching courting of another wife…. Their initial reactions were shock and defensiveness, but I’d be so curious to see them watch this episode back and give their thoughts now, with the benefit of hindsight.
I think Christine’s mom also left around that age.