For the last eight years, Reaching Out has been my assistant at this blog. She has helped me immensely and I am very grateful for all the things she has done to keep the blog functioning and uphold the purpose and priorities of the blog.
If you don’t know who Reaching Out is, that’s because she has largely laboured behind the scenes, out of the public eye. She is a survivor of multiple forms of abuse, from multiple abusers, and in multiple environments.
Reaching Out volunteered to be my assistant in 2017 or early 2018 (I was extremely stressed at that time and I don’t remember the date). I gratefully accepted her offer.
In 2018, through no fault of my own, the blog went offline overnight. You can imagine my horror. All the material that had been so helpful to abused wives was no longer online. The only remedy was to change the blog’s URL from .com to .blog — which broke every link in the blog that pointed to another item in the blog!
Reaching Out spent untold hours fixing all the broken links. I am eternally grateful to her for doing that and for all the other help she gave me keeping things working at the back of the blog, fixing eternal links that had broken, and saving articles to the Internet Archive so they can be found even if they get scrubbed from the website that published them.
Reaching Out emailed me on Jan 23 2026, saying that she was following the leading of the Holy Spirit and resigning from the blog. I replied, “I’m grieved, and shocked. But I trust that the Holy Spirit is leading you and I respect your decision. Thank you for all the myriads of things you have done in assisting me at the blog. 
I hope we can still be friends.
With love and warm wishes for your future — Barb.”
I haven’t heard from her since. She truly loves the Lord, and I trust that she is okay.
Because Reaching Out has resigned, have updated the About page of the blog.
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