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How Emotional Abuse is Physical Abuse

Sheila here! October is Domestic Abuse Awareness Month, and last week I saw an amazing post by Emily at Thriving Forward, who was a guest on the Bare Marriage podcast a while ago talking about growing up under Gothard, and being part of the lawsuit against him.  One...

Are Obligation Sex and Marital Rape the Same Thing?

Is all obligation sex necessarily rape? As we’ve been talking about obligation sex this month, starting with 10 things you need to know about obligation sex, and how obligation sex affects a woman’s body, there’s a conversation that keeps coming up on social media:...

How Bad Advice from Untrained Pastors’ Wives Made Abuse Worse

Sometimes it's women who hold other women in bondage. Last night I shared this Fixed It For You on my social media channels. It's a simple one, and it doesn't really need much explanation.  The author of the original quote, Rachel Jankovic, is Doug Wilson's daughter,...

Shiny, Happy People Amazon Series: It’s Personal. It’s Important.

The story behind Shiny, Happy People is the story behind Bare Marriage. Not exactly, of course. But in many ways we started this work because of the same forces that the new documentary Shiny, Happy People, which just landed on Amazon Prime, is revealing. This one is...
What Does It Mean to Lament After Betrayal?

What Does It Mean to Lament After Betrayal?

With thanks to Brazos Press for sponsoring this post. Forgiveness is possible only after we’ve had the opportunity to name our losses. That’s how Susannah Griffith opens the chapter on lamentations in her book Forgiveness After Trauma. We talked about the book on the...

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