Cruise Idea’s Old Fashioned?

Via MSNBC – Will Katie Holmes be a stay-at-home mom?

The buzz is that Tom Cruise wants his wife-to-be to focus on being a wife and a mother — not on her career. He also reportedly wants her to avoid the spotlight for a while.

“I’ve got Katie tucked away, so no one will get to us until my child is born — and until I want them to,” Cruise recently told “a friend” according to the new issue of Life & Style Weekly.

What’s more, according to the mag, the friend claims Cruise doesn’t want a repeat of his marriage to Nicole Kidman; the couple had two adopted children and also tended to their careers.

“I said [Katie's] life from now on was going to be about being a mother,” Cruise allegedly said. “I’m not giving her the chance to turn into another Nicole.” Cruise’s rep denies the story.

Personally I don’t thinking hiding from the public and the media is going to give that much of an advantage to this relationship over that of Kidman – what I do think will give it advantage is how it’s handled within the relationship.

If both are in agreement and have made the decisions together, it might work out better than before, however, if these are wishes Cruise is coming up with based on HIS last marriage, perhaps they should think more about seeing a family therapist than creating “rules” that limit Katie.