Tag: victims’ resistance

Defining domestic abuse by a list of behaviors is never going to capture it

Barbara Roberts67 Comments

Quite often authors define domestic abuse by giving a list of behaviors. The list can include things like complaining, accusing, angry looks, name calling, denigrating, yelling, threatening, ordering, demanding, belittling, using sarcasm, showing indifference, lying and deceiving, sulking, withholding sexual intimacy, using physical violence. Here is the problem with trying to define domestic abuse as behaviors: You can't necessarily identify who is… Continue reading Defining domestic abuse by a list of behaviors is never going to capture it

Since the Fall, men have been sinfully disposed to oppress women — but this doesn’t mean women must remain in abusive marriages.

Barbara Roberts56 Comments

This post is a coda to my 2-part series on the woman's desire in Genesis 3:16. (Part 1  Part 2) Recently I presented my understanding of Genesis 3:16 , which is Part 2 in my series on the woman's desire, and I summarized my interpretation like this: After the Fall, woman would desire to be cherished by her husband; but rather than cherishing and… Continue reading Since the Fall, men have been sinfully disposed to oppress women — but this doesn’t mean women must remain in abusive marriages.