My summary of the key points Don made in his interview with Kerry McAvoy Don describes how the the workers at the Cork Domestic Violence Project came to realise that men who abuse their female intimate partners operate in a similar way to pedophiles. The thing that's missing in the Power and Control Wheel is… Continue reading Don Hennessy interviewed by Kerry McAvoy
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“Jean” tells her story of how she was groomed to submit to abuse from her husband and her church
"Jean" (her pseudonym), was seriously abused by her first husband when they were members of Doug Wilson's CREC (Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches) church in Moscow Idaho. Jean's story touches on many of the things my readers have experienced: domestic abuse, spiritual abuse, sexual abuse, rape in marriage, financial abuse, systemic abuse, legal abuse, shared… Continue reading “Jean” tells her story of how she was groomed to submit to abuse from her husband and her church