{"id":12534,"date":"2024-11-21T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T07:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koktailmagazine.com\/?p=12534"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:03:15","slug":"mormon-moms-trad-wives-bridging-the-digital-age-with-traditional-homemaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koktailmagazine.com\/th\/2024\/11\/21\/mormon-moms-trad-wives-bridging-the-digital-age-with-traditional-homemaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormon Moms & Trad Wives: Bridging the Digital Age with Traditional Homemaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent years, we’ve witnessed the rise of traditional domesticity, with Mormon housewives on TikTok and the broader Traditional Wife or Trad Wife movement gaining controversial traction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today at Koktail, we\u2019re looking closer at this lifestyle label, uncovering how reclaiming traditional roles has become a bold and empowering choice for many women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Viewed aesthetically, cottagecore and coquette\u2014alongside the Trad Wife ideology\u2014present a vision of romanticised domesticity. Rather than opposing women’s empowerment, these movements can represent personal choice and a woman\u2019s ability to define her own life path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cottagecore embraces traditional homemaking through artisanal crafts and pastoral simplicity, while Coquette draws inspiration from historical romance in its daily rituals. Together, they offer a way to appreciate traditional roles, such as those of a wife or mother, through activities like herb gardening, tea ceremonies, and vintage fashion\u2014choices that anyone, regardless of gender, can adopt as personal and empowering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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