I Never Thought I Would End Up Here But Here I Am: My Life As A "Kept Woman"
I never dreamed I would be That Girl staying at home with her man's money footing the bill. But here I am.
NIA-RENEE-HILL
MARCH 25, 2013
TAGS:
CAREER,
MONEY,
FEMINISM,
KEPT WOMAN
My boyfriend took umbrage with the fact that after a long stretch out of town, he came home to a house that was in less than great shape.
"You couldn't clean the kitchen?"
Comments like this would infuriate me. "HOW DARE YOU!" I would screech. "I'm a goddamn FEMINIST! I'm not here to cook your dinners and be the housemaid! If you wanted Susie Homemaker, you got the wrong MOTHERFUCKIN' girl!"
"Once, you start making your own money again," my fiancée says, "you can tell me to go fuck myself." I tell him that anyway, but I know what he means. The ability to say "Go fuck yourself" to your partner if things go bad and not have to worry about how you're going to take care of yourself is freedom. Which is all I have ever wanted.
So here I am! Writing,
working on my website and starting my podcast, "Nia, Please!" in the next few months. It'll be an advice podcast, if you can believe that. I'm trying to get some kind of career going, whatever it turns out to be. Being a lady of leisure is super fun, I won't lie. But being a real, working, contributing, equal partner feels even better.