The Difficulty and Necessity of Accepting the Unlove

Recently, Jeff Crippen made a comment on this post: It seems to me that the physical relationship between husband and wife is an outgrowth of the nature of their heart relationship. If the heart is bad, all that proceeds from it will be colored by that. So the fact that your husband is manipulative, mean,… Continue reading The Difficulty and Necessity of Accepting the Unlove

When the kids blame the victim too

When the victim's children blame the victim for breaking up the family, it's doubly painful. And really tricky to navigate because the survivor has to try to speak the truth without unduly denigrating the abuser, and remain a good parent who loves, nurtures, educates and appropriately disciplines the kids — all things that the abuser… Continue reading When the kids blame the victim too