"Woman must be a cook, but not a competitive cook; a school mistress, but not a competitive schoolmistress; a house-decorator but not a competitive house-decorator; a dressmaker, but not a competitive dressmaker." — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World
A woman does not need to be the best cook in the world, but she should be the best cook in her home. She does not need to be the most beautiful woman in the world, but she should try to be as beautiful as she can be in her own right according to what her husband finds most attractive about her. She does not need to be the best blogger in her friend group, but she should be her husband and children's favorite mom blog.
Too many women get catty with one another because they are trying to win bragging rights from one another without respect to the men in their lives who actually have the authority to hand out blue ribbons.
No one hates a woman like other women.
A wife is not called to be a better wife than the one next door because she doesn't live next door. A wife is suited to her husband and to her house. The only way she can be better is by asking her husband what else he needs or seeing where her own household could improve. She may borrow ideas from another wife on how to improve her own household or how to better serve her own husband, but not in order to best her neighbor. They are running their respective races on separate tracks. They could not beat the other to the finish line because it is not a timed event.
Yet, women often insist on competing with one another without respect to their own husband's judgment. They post in order to impress their friends or tp be the envy of Instagram, but they ignore their own people. They throw shade at another's woman's cake recipe in order to gain a spotlight for their own. They are often competing with each other over things their husbands do not give a fig about.
No one hates a woman like other women.
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