To think that these women are living in blissful ignorance ?

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I've just have a scroll on insta out of sheer boredom and am thinking about some of these WAGs, international and otherwise.
In the case of the women I follow, they're stunningly beautiful , intelligent, educated , professional and successful women but it's well known generally , where I live , that some of their husbands and partners are well known for drug use , cheating, questionable alpha male nonsense behaviour when out and abroad.
Now the country I'm in is a small country ... a village some would say , where you can almost make a connection with everyone you meet.
These aren't rumours. Plenty of photos, voice notes, videos and similar experiences circulate regularly.

Do you think that their OHs know what they're up to and choose to ignore or are they blissfully unaware?
Genuine question.

Of course they know.

I think in a lot of cases these people live lives so far removed from ours that different rules apply. The women probably aren't living "traditional" married lives either.

I think it's unlikely they're unaware and they've made their choices for reasons that suit them.

Because there is a power in balance. I'm sure if Colleen Rooney was shagging around, then Wayne would have dumped her.

The rugby wives I know are mostly perfectly ordinary, have their own professional lives (one I met recently is an orthodontist, and the one I know longest is a solicitor), and I would be very surprised if they had substantially different expectations about fidelity to most of the rest of the population.

What country do you live in that's so small it's like a village, but has rugby?!

Ireland of course @Islandsadness . @justbrowsingagain I think it's different to what others have said. I follow rugby and went to school with a few WAGs. If it's Ireland then it's the prestige of being the one picked by the rugby player. Rugby players are worshipped in their circles, schools and areas. It's not about money or fame or lifestyle, it's about being the chosen one. And everyone else in the circle then knows you're the chosen one. So you have such prestige.

They choose to ignore which is why the men continue to get away with their behaviour.

@Resentful2023 ... prestige but at what cost ?
One has just had a baby recently. Her husband is recently retired and is coked off his head anytime he's been photographed or videoed out, which he does a lot considering there's a new baby.

Another I follow , again heavily pregnant , watching on as her husband is very clearly sexually harassing young girls in a stairwell beside a club he was in.

Another Two of them, one engaged ( at the time) and one married with kids caught in a threesome. Videos clear as you like.
She went on to marry him a few months later.
I couldn't think of a worse fate for my daughters and certainly don't consider it as prestige.
I certainly consider her/ them as the chosen one(s) who has so little self esteem and self worth that they'll put up with all types of shit to 'win the prize'.
These are highly educated , brilliant and beautiful women.
I don't understand!

I don’t personally know any rugby wives but I do know of one who is a history teacher and one who is a doctor.

They choose to ignore for the designer handbags. So very shallow

@justbrowsingagain I'm not saying I agree with it or understand it, just that's how it is when they get together. Why they stay - they may have grown up in those circles as teenagers, knowing what the senior team boys get up to, and it's just par for the course. Maybe there weren't expectations of fidelity and support and good behaviour on nights out. And the carefully curated Instagram happy families just supports the family unit career goals rather than reflects a functional family unit.

I think many comments are coming from the point of view of English soccer WAGs or English culture and they don't translate. I'd say you see the same thing replicated in every county with the county GAA players and their girlfriends/wives and they're not even getting paid (officially) so it's not for the designer handbags.

Oh I know @Resentful2023 ... I suppose these carefully curated insta pics ... placing these snakes up on higher pedestals than you could imagine when these wives are the ones having given birth a few days before . It's fucking weird.

Yes @Resentful2023 ... I'm thinking of a popular hurler here whose wife has been with a good few of the rival team players and now a series of chants welcome the husband into the stadium at each match. Unreal.

The patriarchy well and truly alive.

Wales!

I'd say we're thinking of the same recent perfect insta pics with the new baby. I'd say they're as much for the mum's benefit too - keeping up appearances, putting best foot forward. She is selling a lifestyle too.