Maybe you've heard it from your church leaders or other wives: There's no such thing as sexual abuse in marriage. Your body is no longer your own. He can do with it as he pleases. No good wife every refuses anything sexual her husband desires. His needs, his needs, his needs...
That was the main idea behind the Christian objection to 50 Shades of Grey. It wasn't that the storyline was based on abuse, manipulation, coercion, perversion. It was that the sex didn't take place inside a legal marriage. Abuse dissolves with a marriage certificate, right?
What?!
If there had been a wedding, then THAT would have been rendered good?
Sexual abuse within marriage does happen, and it is sinister, damaging, and evil.
Leslie Vernick on her blog from March 25, 2015, shares one woman's account.
As we've said before, "Satan is a one-trick pony." This could have been this writer's story, down to most every shared detail. The husband's actions and underlying mindset, the wife's responses, the church's reaction to her cry for help. It's time to bring this into the light so that the next generation does not suffer so.
Read Leslie's blog here: http://christiancounseling.com/blog/
And just from my experience: Be encouraged. My marriage took from me all my innocence, but God has restored my purity. I am his and he has washed from me all the filth of that relationship. Healing is long and seems slow to me, but it is happening. The purification, however, is a sealed deal. I am his and he is mine and nothing can separate me from his love that is mine in Christ Jesus.
That was the main idea behind the Christian objection to 50 Shades of Grey. It wasn't that the storyline was based on abuse, manipulation, coercion, perversion. It was that the sex didn't take place inside a legal marriage. Abuse dissolves with a marriage certificate, right?
What?!
If there had been a wedding, then THAT would have been rendered good?
Sexual abuse within marriage does happen, and it is sinister, damaging, and evil.
Leslie Vernick on her blog from March 25, 2015, shares one woman's account.
As we've said before, "Satan is a one-trick pony." This could have been this writer's story, down to most every shared detail. The husband's actions and underlying mindset, the wife's responses, the church's reaction to her cry for help. It's time to bring this into the light so that the next generation does not suffer so.
Read Leslie's blog here: http://christiancounseling.com/blog/
And just from my experience: Be encouraged. My marriage took from me all my innocence, but God has restored my purity. I am his and he has washed from me all the filth of that relationship. Healing is long and seems slow to me, but it is happening. The purification, however, is a sealed deal. I am his and he is mine and nothing can separate me from his love that is mine in Christ Jesus.
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