by Elisabeth | Aug 20, 2021 | difficult marriage, divorce, e-course, emotions, friendship, healing, heart, wholeness
Question: How do you stop obsessing about what your ex-husband is doing with his life? How do you detach from someone that you were literally linked to as “one flesh” for years and years? The same way you spit out the elephant you’ve been eating for years…one bite at...
by Elisabeth | Jul 30, 2021 | abuse, difficult marriage, wholeness
This question does nothing less than break my heart and bring back horrible memories. You’re asking why, which I’ll try to touch on, but I think you’re also asking if you can do anything to change your situation as well. First, why can’t you just be who you are in...
by Elisabeth | Jul 16, 2021 | abuse, difficult marriage, healing, pain, wholeness
I think most people think of abused women as mousy, as cowards, with black eyes hidden under thick make-up, as – as harsh as this sounds – fools or, worse yet, just plain idiots. Because who would willingly stay in an abusive marriage? What kind of woman wouldn’t be...
by Elisabeth | Jul 2, 2021 | abuse, Church, difficult marriage
When I was in trying-to-save-my-marriage mode for that fifteen or so year stretch, I asked for a lot of help and advice and read a lot of books and prayed a lot of prayers and I put several things in place in an attempt to turn things around. Things like: *I was...
by Elisabeth | May 28, 2021 | difficult marriage, healing, heart, wholeness
This morning I was thinking about how when I was married the first time, I did what another person told me to do, and I didn’t do what I was told not to do. Not all the time. But a lot of the time. And, to be clear, it’s not like I was told to join in with him on porn...
by Elisabeth | Apr 23, 2021 | difficult marriage, divorce, emotions, healing, wholeness
Women are interesting creatures. We will pour out and pour out to others, we will give our hearts and our lives and our energy to a cause, to a problem, to our marriages, to our children, and we will do all of this sometimes to the detriment of ourselves. Yes, we are...
