Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
Abraham said to him, "See to it that you do not take my son back there. (Gen 24:6) A "Hoover" is a metaphor taken from the popular brand of vacuum cleaners, to describe how an abuse victim (trying to assert her own rights by leaving or limiting contact in a dysfunctional relationship), gets “sucked back… Continue reading Don’t Get Sucked in by the “Hoovering” Vacuum of the Abuser
Abusers will ALWAYS chafe at boundaries. They may abide by those limits for a time, but only because they have no choice. And the first time they see some kind of opening that, in their thinking, justifies them crossing the line, off they go. Here is a narrative from the Old Testament which illustrates this. The… Continue reading Count on it — Abusers Will Always Violate a Boundary
