In an April 2025 episode of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” Erika Kirk, the wife of the slain conservative pundit, gave her thoughts on submission and the role of a woman in a “Biblical marriage.”
“Your husband has to be the one that goes out into the world and builds and battles and comes home. Conquers,” she said as Charlie Kirk sat next to her. “[He] comes home and is like, this is my nest egg, this is what I worked so hard for, and the wife is like, ‘Welcome home, babe, whatever you need, we’re here.’”
There are occasions when a man has to step in and stay at home ― she admitted that her own father did so briefly and that it was a “really sweet and really special” time in her childhood. Still, she said, her parents divorced, which proved her point: Generally, a marriage is stronger when the man is the provider.
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Now, Erika Kirk is foisted into the provider role. A week after Charlie Kirk was gunned down during a speaking event at a Utah campus, Erika Kirk was announced as the CEO and chair of the board for his company, Turning Point USA.
