Divorced, Childless 38-Year-Old Woman Gets Emotional as She Realizes She’s Been ‘Betrayed’ by Feminism

By Mike Landry

Melissa Persling tells a sad story.

And from what I see online and elsewhere, hers is a common one — she realizes she has been betrayed by feminism.

She posted her story on Business Insider, saying she wanted an urban career when young, but in her early 20s married her childhood sweetheart who wanted a simple, traditional, small-town household with a wife focusing on it and on motherhood.

That caused conflict they could never resolve.

“We were young, foolish, and sweet, thinking our love would allow us to overcome our differences. We were also very wrong,” she wrote.

After about a decade, they divorced, with Persling then entering a minimal-commitment lifestyle with an older man — “We took trips, drank nice wine, and stayed out late,” she wrote.

“Without the expectation or duties of a shared mortgage or a family, we simply enjoyed our time together. When we were apart, we did our own things.

“Those were great, easy years,” according to Persling.

They eventually broke up, with Persling in her late 30s realizing she was beginning to yearn for a traditional lifestyle, with marriage and children. “I hardly recognized myself,” she said.

After her Business Insider article, she posted a video, displayed by Fox News, in which she said she her article prompted hundreds of comments, messages, emails and texts from men who described her as selfish.

Fighting tears, Persling said, ”I wrote a lot of that article, like truly scared. Like, I really did think, like, wow, you’ve missed your opportunity. You are gonna be alone. You’re not gonna have a family.”

So many of the men’s comments disparaged her as a feminist, but Persling said he doesn’t describe herself as one. And the comments prompted her to write an as yet unpublished article “about the downfall of living a selfish, me-focused life.”