This post is written by Ellie, one of our readers. *** I keep thinking about ways I've been misunderstood by my abuser and his parents, and I daydream about trying to explain things so that [husband] and his parents will see and understand what happened and why I left, why I HAD to leave. But… Continue reading How Reformed Theology brings me freedom, and how I respond to unfair accusations
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Sleeping with the enemy… and being ‘one flesh’ with an abuser who sexually assaults children
Trigger warning. "It's like the abuser's evil was shared with me and in a sense I became one with it." The sexual intimacy a woman has with her husband means that they are "one flesh" — whatever that phrase means. For me, the pollution of an abuser having sexual intercourse with me affected me to… Continue reading Sleeping with the enemy… and being ‘one flesh’ with an abuser who sexually assaults children