E41 Is Your Marriage Harmful... or Just Hard?

Hard marriages contain problems. Harmful marriages contain patterns of power. Most Christian women have never been taught how to tell which one they are living in. You have been taught forgiveness. You have been taught submission, covenant, and faithfulness. I stand on every one of those. But I have watched women take that teaching and use it to explain away something that was never hers to carry. I have also watched women walk away when what God was actually asking of them was growth. In this episode I walk you through 15 side-by-side comparisons from nearly 2 decades of this work: conflict against intimidation, poor communication against twisted communication, money as a stressor against money as a weapon, defensiveness against punished confrontation, poor leadership against weaponized headship. This is part 1 of 2. Part 2 is available right now. If you are being harmed or threatened, your safety comes first. You can honor God and still remove yourself from danger. Come join us inside the Wise Wife Community: https://www.wisewife.co/community-sp