Angela’s Story: Financial Abuse: The Hidden Grip of Control
Financial Abuse occurs in 99% of domestic violence cases.
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Little Wife Crashes
After her escape from Big Man, Little Wife filled her days with job hunting, apartment searching and driving her children to school and their activities, trying to keep life for the children as normal as possible, all things considered. There was so much to consider and many life details to be worked out. They stayed…
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Abusive Relationships | Children and domestic violence | Coercive Control | Domestic Violence | Effects of Abuse
Enough is Enough for Little Wife
One Sunday morning, Little Wife and Big Man went to their church. He gripped her hand tightly as they walked in and smiled brightly at the worshipers greeting them at the door. “Good morning! Good morning! Yes, isn’t it a fine spring morning! Praise the Lord for Sundays in the house of God.” Little Wife…
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Suppertime with Little Wife
On Monday, the Lord took away all of Little Wife’s cravings for drinking white wine, pink wine, red wine and everything else she drank for years. She looked at the bottles of wine and felt nothing for them, no desire, no anticipation, no comfort, not even a passing interest. She did not tell Big Man….
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For Those Still Grieving
This original poem by our friend, Janet Blessing, addresses the dilemma of whether to talk with our children, our pastors, our church friends about the abuse, the pain, the hurt, the sin infesting our home. STILL GRIEVING of all I’d put my children through; of all I’d done to me– but worst of all, the…
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Can I Trust My Perceptions?
Joan woke up in the morning with heaviness on her heart. “Another day, another problem,” she thought. It seemed like every day there was another mountain to climb, hurdles to jump, and barriers to get around. She could not make sense of her relationship with Tom. One minute he appeared sensitive to her feelings and…
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Abusive Relationships | Domestic Violence | Effects of Abuse | Emotional Abuse | Psychological Wounds | Trauma
Hidden Abuse
Anyone who mentions the words domestic violence automatically thinks of the various forms of physical abuse which are visible to the naked eye. Below the surface of those wounds though is a crushed heart and a remnant of an image bearer of God. Often in the Christian community the devastation of verbal and emotional abuse…
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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Here we are in October again… I remember October 2021, my first full month as the National Chaplain for FOCUS Ministries, I was blessed to have 19 counseling calls with women across the country who were suffering from domestic abuse. I thought to myself, “Wow, there are so many women who need to hear the…
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Abusive Relationships | Domestic Violence | Effects of Abuse | Emotional Abuse | Insights | Passive Agressive | Physical Abuse | Psychological Wounds
Here’s The Trouble
Relationships are supposed to be fun and fulfilling and full of love. That was God’s original plan. First with our family and our friends, then as romantic dating partners and then as married people, we were originally meant to be kind and loving and patient and full of grace and mercy towards the people in…
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Abusive Relationships | Betrayal | Children and domestic violence | Domestic Violence | DV Effects on Children | Effects of Abuse | Physical Abuse | Psychological Wounds
Little Wife Used to be a Little Teen Girl
Because we recognize the month of February as a time to build awareness of Teen Dating Violence, I am re-posting the story I wrote last year about how Little Wife started out being an abused little teenage girl. Not much has changed … Girls still get abused, controlled, manipulated and assaulted on “dates” and by…
