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The original was posted on /r/relationships by /u/throwaway94837299 on 2024-01-22 21:14:44+00:00.
Daughter who is 18 seems obsessed with the idea of a family of her own, marriage and children.
Admittedly I (F50) have not set a good example, with me and her dad fighting and other family fights may have caused it. We were never married, but now she is entirely sure she will never have children outside of marriage, and that she will marry young. She wants children and a husband before 25, and has already been saving for a house of her own etc. She began attending a new Orthodox church a year ago, and has since become more and more religious. She has met a boy at church, who is from a wealthy Canadian family, he is nice but also incredibly religious but a man of few words. He is 3? years older than her, and if I am honest I am not keen on him. Her plan is she will get a degree in midwifery and once she is married she will stay at home, which I think is unfeasible with the cost of living crisis etc. If I am honest, I do not think she will even end up in university, she has done barely any work for her upcoming exams. I should add none of her siblings are the same, in fact 2 have children outside of marriage and none of us are religious, only baptised as babies, so it is bizarre where this has all come from, and it seems backwards.
I should also add she is slowly cutting off contact with my side of the family. Her dad’s side are distant as it is as they are scattered worldwide, but we are mostly in the same country. I am moving away in a year or two to live with one of my older children, and I think she may cut off contact with me entirely then.
[TLDR] F18 daughter seems to be becoming a tradwife and I F50 am concerned she is going to ruin her life.