Archive - Mama Freydman's Goodwifery

"I am sorry I didn't sleep with you"

My take on this clever epistolary essay

Mar 14, 2024 •

Danielle Freydman

Masturbation in marriage

To beat or not to beat, that is the question I cannot believe I'm asking, and answering, out loud; see what wisdom nearly 40 years of marriage brings to…

Mar 8, 2024 •

Danielle Freydman

Why the Goodwifery?

Goodwives are a historical fact, not a social media fantasy for traditionalists to lean into nor a category of oppression for progressives to rescue. We…

Mar 6, 2024 •

Danielle Freydman

Why men pretend they don't like sexy, fun girls

Let this grandma explain it to you plain: Men want to claim babes for themselves and deny other, potentially better men a shot

Mar 2, 2024 •

Danielle Freydman

February 2024

The surprising, beautiful horror of happy married sex

A response to Becca Rothfeld's New Yorker essay, "All Good Sex Is Body Horror" in which I claim that married sex is more transformative than she…

Feb 29, 2024 •

Danielle Freydman

The carousel of rape discourse

We tend to go around and around on this one. I wish it were possible to be truth-seeking and compassionate at the same time.

Feb 13, 2024 •

Danielle Freydman

The Frozen River review: Enjoy, but don't believe

Ariel Lawhon's new bestseller is exactly what it aimed to be, another book in which women heroically oppose bad men. You can enjoy it--I did--but don't…

Feb 4, 2024 •

Danielle Freydman

January 2024

How a conservative librarian stocks her shelves

I am a middle school librarian who leans conservative and even I put books on my shelves that conservatives might protest. Sometimes because I can't…

Jan 30, 2024 •

Danielle Freydman

Where are the matriarchs

Part one of a three-part essay on silent, well-behaved matriarchs--who they are, why they are silent today, and how to begin to find them.

Jan 22, 2024 •

Danielle Freydman

Welcome to my (vant)Age point

I've come here to talk from nearly 40 years of marriage about a woman's place in her marriage, her family, and life. I will say things many people won't…

Jan 16, 2024 •

Danielle Freydman

This is Mama Freydman's Goodwifery.

Jan 4, 2024 •

Danielle Freydman

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