'I quit my job to cook and clean for my husband - it's my duty as his wife'
"I feel like it is my job as his wife to make sure that he comes home to a nice house that has been cleaned."
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26-year-old Mikayla Herrmann, from Oklahoma, US, said she has never felt more fulfilled than she does now as a traditional wife, or trad wife.
She left her job as an optician in exchange for a life in the country side six years ago, following a six-generation long trend of women staying at home in her family.
She spends hours every day cooking and cleaning while her husband Samuel Herrmann works at a blacksmith machinery firm.
She said: "I definitely feel like it is my duty to serve my husband and for him to be the breadwinner of my house.”
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"My mum and husband's mum have done the same thing, our grandparents have done the same thing. We're probably the fifth or sixth generation of home-making wives.
“We had always known that once we got married that my husband was going to be the provider for me and I would be the stay-at-home wife and take care of everything around the home,” she told MailOnline.
She has developed a love for country life, making her husband meals from home-grown vegetables, meat from their farm and bread made with flour milled at home. In an Instagram post, she wrote: “I married the country boy, but we joke that he married the farmer. Literally NO ONE I know, saw this coming.
"Going from city girl to homesteader has been the biggest plot twist, in the absolute best way! I honestly can’t imagine living life a different way, without having farm animals, without preserving my own food, without my amazing and supportive husband.”
The couple met in 2017 at a church function and hit it off, a year later they got married.
Mikayla is constantly met with criticism with comments on her Instagram page calling her ‘oppressed’ and ‘lazy’.
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"I was always looking forward to meeting my husband and becoming a housewife,” she said. “That's what I've always seen women in my life do and what I've always wanted to do.”
"I have gotten some hateful comments on my social media about being a homemaker. It's mostly just comments about being lazy and that I sit at home and let my husband take care of everything and I'm not doing anything that's fulfilling here.”
In reality, Mikayla spends much of her day preparing food and cleaning the house so the ‘home can be ready for her husband’.
She told MailOnline: “It usually takes an hour or more of preparation before he comes home to be ready for when he comes home for it.”
"But he is such a kind person that he will never be frustrated at me if I'm having a bad day and I'm not able to get food on the table whenever he walks through the door. I try to do as much of that as I can because I feel like it is my job as his wife to make sure that he comes home to a nice house that has been cleaned."
