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When You Realize You’ve Coerced Your Wife Into Sex: 5 Next Steps

What do you do if your wife tells you that she feels as if she has been raped? Or, if she doesn't use those exact words, if she tells you that she feels as if she's been coerced into sex? We've been talking this month about digging out of the pit that you may have...

Christians Need a Better Understanding of Consent

What does it mean to be "unwilling" to have sex? We're in the middle of a series on the blog about how to dig out of the pit your sex life is in, when one of you, or both of you, keeps digging that pit deeper. One of the big points I was making is that we cannot...

What To Do If You’re a Victim of Marital Rape

There is little more devastating to a marriage than rape. This month, on the blog, we're talking about how to recover from sexual problems in your marriage, and I want to spend this week talking about marital rape. On Monday, I talked about the dynamics in evangelical...

2 Kinds of Marital Rape that Evangelicalism (Inadvertently) Enables

Marital rape is the story in all too many Christian marriages. When we analyzed the top 13 evangelical books for our book The Great Sex Rescue, there was one word that was missing from all of them: Consent. While several books did do a good job at talking about the...
How Churches Treat Women Who Divorced for Abuse

How Churches Treat Women Who Divorced for Abuse

Divorced women are not finding evangelical churches to be welcoming places.  Despite the fact that many women endured years of trying to make their marriage work even in the presence of their husband’s abuse, infidelity, or substance abuse, when the divorce is...

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