that wife family

Welcome

Hello! I’m That Wife, my partner is That Husband, our son is T1, and our daughter is T2. This is the space where I document the many changes and stages of my life. I grew up on a farm as part of a devout Mormon family, married and left BYU before finishing my bachelor’s degree in […]

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That Wife on Snapchat

tl;dr - I’m thatwifejenna on Snapchat. Dev Bootcamp pushes the idea of timeboxing, setting a limit for yourself and producing a Minimum Viable Product within that time. Sometimes an MVP is all you need. I’m testing that out with this post, which needs to be finished in 15-minutes or less. Let’s get into how I […]

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One Quick Take

I’m slowly working on some more in-depth posts, during the tiniest little pockets of time here and there, and it’s the sort of content that I want to think of as an experience, not a broadcast (haven’t these comment-free posts felt a bit cold and impersonal?). So let’s give comments on That Wife a try […]

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Breaking Up With the Comments Section

I’ve been considering this for several months now. It’s the right thing to do for a variety of reasons. Keeping the comments section open reads as an invitation to engage with me, but I am rarely commenting back. I thought if I was persistent enough with my writing, if I put more effort into my […]

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Audience Approach Adjustment

(I was really committed to the idea of alliteration with that title.) The initial Arena post and the redux Arena post have led to lots of great conversations about what went wrong and how to fix it, and whether the vision I have for That Wife can ever come to fruition. If you look at […]

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