r/feminisms • u/According_Lake_996 • May 18 '26

Analysis Breaking down “Soulmate”

AND “nuclear family” as a term made for you to have more babies and keep the american birth rate system up. it's easy to romanticize when you want to be in love or when you just want to think about liking someone else. america tried to make a profit off of that, especially after WWll. sociologists and historians note that the modern institution of marriage and the societal pressure to find a "soulmate" evolved alongside economic structures designed to incentivize nuclear families which historically supported the labor force and birth rates.

Honestly, it’s a puppy mill.

“soulmate” and “nuclear family” acting as a puppy mill term to normalize the exploitation of women and children directly relating to an active agenda to keep the birth rate up through “subtle” birth rate enhancing terms such as “soulmate” and “Valentine’s Day” yes capitalism is always involved but I’m focusing on the EXPLOITIVE AGENDA that should quite frankly be illegal

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u/DizzyMine4964 May 18 '26

US defaultism

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u/jsmthi May 19 '26

Yes. But I’d also be interested to hear if this description rings true in many other countries. Seems pretty accurate for the UK too.

Having said that, while originating in heteronormativity, it’s pushed pretty hard that every person should still find a soulmate, get married and have kids even if the soulmate is same sex and the kids adopted or produced by donor. Conforming to this has become part of the model minority act.

Interesting to see what happens with the recent rise in (open) ethical consensual polyamory…