by Elisabeth | Jun 10, 2022 | abuse, difficult marriage, faith, pain, wholeness
I have two equally-weighted fears when it comes to my ministry. One is that there is a woman out there who I don’t reach, and she languishes physically or emotionally or spiritually when she doesn’t have to, either in her difficult marriage or in her divorce or as a...
by Elisabeth | Apr 8, 2022 | abuse, difficult marriage
I’m picturing my 20something somewhat-newly-married self coming to me, the 50something married-divorced-remarried been-around-the-block self, and saying, “My marriage is hard. Harder than I think it should be. I cry almost every day. I’m so confused. I don’t think...
by Elisabeth | Mar 25, 2022 | difficult marriage, remarriage, wholeness
I get asked all the time what is different about my second marriage that makes it work? And there are many answers for that. But today I’m going to focus on what I personally am doing differently. During my first marriage, I was controlling. I was a nag. I was...
by Elisabeth | Jan 28, 2022 | 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 | Jan 21, 2022 | 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 | Jan 14, 2022 | 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...
