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ROOKE: The ‘Gets It’ Guy

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30.09.2026

Welcome back to Good Life, a newsletter about navigating our modern culture and staying sane in the process. This week, we talk about husbands, masculinity, and marriage.

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A wife posted a video calling her husband the “gets it” guy because if she or her daughter wants anything, he just goes and gets it. People got irrationally upset by this. Apparently, it was emasculating, which struck me as odd, since the wife was clearly posting this not to make fun of him, but to praise him.

If you’ve been a longtime reader of this newsletter, you know that I live a pretty traditional life. My husband and I got married young. I was 22, and he was 24. We had four girls right away. We would have had more if it weren’t for medical reasons that made it impossible for me to continue. I stayed home with our babies until they were all school-aged, and only then did I start writing. I make it to every game and recital. I do all the school projects. And I am the one responsible for anything that needs to be baked, sewn, or hot-glued.

Even so, I say with complete respect and gratitude that my husband is also the “gets it” guy.

He is a strong, masculine man. He played rugby his whole life. He hunts. He is the breadwinner. If there is a problem in our lives, he is the first person we go to for help. He’s not always great at........

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