by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 11, 2023 | 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...
by Gretchen Baskerville | Oct 19, 2022 | Abuse
Sheila here! One of the things I love about being online is the friends that I meet who are passionate about similar things and doing work adjacent to me. And one of my favourites is Gretchen Baskerville, author of The Life Saving Divorce. She’s done great work...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 8, 2022 | Abuse
Okay, everybody: raise your hand if you’re pro-abuse! Of course no one is pro-abuse. So what does it mean to be anti-abuse? Just a few quick thoughts on a Tuesday (I try not to write long posts on Tuesdays to give myself a day to get a lot of work done), but I...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 21, 2021 | Abuse
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month–and today I thought we’d take a look at what too many Christian resources are NOT telling us about abuse. It’s another edition of the Bare Marriage podcast, and I wanted to make sure that we had at least...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 24, 2021 | Abuse
How can you tell if your marriage is emotionally destructive, or if it’s just a normal level of pain? I caused a firestorm on Facebook over the weekend when I asked whether we talk too much about how “marriage is hard”, and then when people are truly...