Christian women shouldn’t look to worldly influencers for marital wisdom

Hope Bonarcher says the current trend in relationship advice is seducing a generation of women straight into bondage.

As a Christian wife and mother who has been married to one man for 13 years now, I could give you some advice on how I got here. Warning: It’s not the stuff of Real Housewives, and doesn’t include lying, manipulation or scheming to attain unearned finances. 

Perhaps I’m simply boring? Four children ago I was a young, romantic single; an unbeliever, with a propensity to idealize. I believed the Cinderella dream that I would find my Prince Charming. There were maybe as many pitfalls in my over-romanticized outlook as there are in today’s proclivities of the relational succubus. 

For me, parasitic is exactly the word that comes to mind when I look at popular social media gurus like SheraSeven (a social media influencer with 20 billion views on Tik Tok). Her modus operandi? Teaching women over the age of 25 to snag a rich man; making the modern-day ‘horrors’ of self-sufficiency fade away completely, like gold dust (her catch phrase is ‘sprinkle sprinkle’).