Divorcee Lauren Southern Backtracks on Trad Wife Life & Takes Hits At The Right
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Summary
Former self-proclaimed "Trad Wife" Lauren Southern is getting a divorce. She posted a video that should have been called, I'm Back and I Was Wrong About Marriage. It's a mess. In short, she married a part Asian Australian who worked for the equivalent of the Aussie FBI. Now right there, you chose the wrong guy, especially if you're a supposed political dissident. This could never work. Bad choice. Now there's always two sides to a divorce, but basically, although he was a trad Catholic, it turns out he wasn't who she thought he was and her most traumatic experience has been being a housewife. She ended up renting a cabin at a trailer park with her son in Canada and found real community with the plebes who didn't know her as Lauren Southern.
Transcript
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Now for a little e-celeb news, former self-proclaimed former trad wife poster girl Lauren Southern
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She posted a video that should have been called, I'm back and I was wrong about marriage.
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In short, she married a part Asian Australian who worked for the equivalent of the Aussie
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You chose the wrong guy, especially if you're a supposed political dissident.
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Now there's always two sides to a divorce, but basically, although he was trad Catholic,
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it turns out he wasn't who she thought he was and her most traumatic experience has been
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She ended up renting a cabin at a trailer park with her son in Canada and found real community
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with the plebes who didn't know her as Lauren Southern.
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While telling her relationship journey, she makes side commentary lecturing people on the
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right for their views on marriage and relationships.
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She claims she knows people who are hiding their struggling marriages and pretending for
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their viewers, posting the best picture moments.
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So therefore, everyone on the right is living a lie.
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Lauren spent a lot of time backtracking things she once said years back about marriage and
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relationships because now she's getting divorced.
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One bad experience, and here's why the right is wrong about marriage.
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Claiming she helped create a movement that has no acceptance or understanding of the human
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condition, lecturing the right on their values when it comes to marriage.
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It doesn't have anything to do with anyone else, their values or political ideology.
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In fact, she said she was ready to abandon her political beliefs altogether.
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I thought she already did several times in videos in the past.
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But what makes a good, strong marriage isn't politics.
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When I met my husband, politics wasn't even in my mind yet.
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It worked because we are compatible and complement each other.
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Although politics is now part of our relationship and shared beliefs, we as people transcend that.
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Politics isn't enough to keep people together, as Lauren was shocked to find that being conservative
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This is why I always tell young women, if you are second-guessing a relationship, don't
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And it's also true that you can't marry your political opposite, like an anti-government
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Usually, when people have a failed marriage, if they are honest with themselves, looking
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Your intuition was trying to tell you, even if you ignored it, thinking it could work out
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In Lauren's case, the simple fact that he was supposedly living this James Bond fed agent
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lifestyle before her should have been enough to doubt.
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Don't marry someone on the I will change clause.
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Look, this is why you can't listen to 20-year-olds or people who haven't been married about marriage
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When you are young and when you do not have proper guidance and advice, you make wrong choices.
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Even when you do have guidance, you can make bad choices.
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I wish it weren't so and that we can break the cycle, but it's been true for so many of us.
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I look back at my early 20s and think, come on, Lana, why didn't you see that?
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Your brain isn't fully wired until 26, and some things just do require maturity and experience.
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It doesn't mean you can't make wise choices as a youth.
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Many do and have, but many also don't, especially today.
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It also doesn't mean that what you said at 20 isn't true, like in Lauren's case.
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That is what you should be reflecting on and how to choose better next time, because there
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I know many people who fell into this trap and then later chose the right person and have
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Do I disown or lack compassion and understanding?
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Lauren was making it sound like people in our sphere are cold and cruel just because someone
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had a failed relationship, isn't married, or is a single mom.
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That's simply untrue, and there's always going to be exceptions.
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But there will be one type of single mom I won't stop making fun of.
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I will take this opportunity to say a few things about marriage.
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Lauren learned that marriage isn't like a Disney movie or a romantic comedy.
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As she said, it's not an instant guarantee of fulfillment where you are happy and rich because
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My husband and children are the best thing that ever happened to me.
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They have fulfilled me, helped me truly find myself, and made me grow and refine as an
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Life can be fun and beautiful, but it's also work and struggle, including relationships and
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There will be ups and downs, high peaks and lows.
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No one anywhere ever says that marriage and family is a cakewalk.
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There will be amazing days, fun days, rewarding days, blah days, frustrating days, and hard days.
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Being married, having a family, is also like having a big mirror pointed at you, revealing
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It can be incredibly transformative with the right man, and equally, the woman makes the man.
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It's nature's mystical, alchemical dance of the masculine and feminine as the gods intended.
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It can be a positive, transformative union, or it can be devastating and destructive if you
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So the big question is, how do you choose the right person?
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Well, you start by being honest with yourself, who you are, and what you truly want and need.
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No one knows you like you, and if you know yourself, you know it isn't going to work.
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That will save you a lot of time in the long run.
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In the case of women, it's about saying no more often and stop dragging things out because
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it seems good at the time or because you feel pressured.
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Lastly, the other thing that stood out in Lauren's monetized divorce video, taking hits
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at the right, again, was her saying she's going to resume making videos that show the
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Marriage is a beautiful thing, and when it's right, it's a partnership that can make dreams
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Yes, divorce happens, but the key to a happy marriage is to marry the person who's made
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Don't rush in, and if there's any doubt, don't do it.
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And if a relationship fails, don't blame right-wing values as if the less values of being single
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and adopting African kids or being married and going to swingers parties will fulfill you.
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The values of a healthy relationship and marriage are far older than current left-right paradigm
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And lastly, if you want relationship advice, ask those who are in lasting, fulfilled unions.
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Don't listen to hustlers like pro-Islam Andrew Tate who Lauren accused of human trafficking
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Surround yourself with healthy, whole people and thriving relationships, and it will rub off
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Getting married is the end of one phase of your life and the start of the next.