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“God wants our hearts to be right so the answers to our prayers are not compromised. This whole requirement is especially hard when you feel your husband has sinned against you with unkindness, lack of respect, irresponsibility, infidelity, abandonment, cruelty, or abuse. But God considers the sins of unforgiveness, anger, hatred, self-pity, lovelessness, and revenge to be just as bad as any other.” 🤢
— Nov 08, 2026 11:48PM
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Julie Padgett
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“She didn’t see how she could live the rest of her life without affection, but she saw no hope of Tom’s ever being any different. Finally, Patti’s misery forced her to take the problem to her prayer partners. They diligently covered it in prayer every week and as they prayed, God worked on Patti. He spoke to her about obeying Him in the area of eating right and getting proper exercise.” Umm okay? 🤨
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Julie Padgett
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“For a wife, sex comes out of affection. She doesn’t want to be affectionate with a man who makes her feel angry, hurt, lonely, disappointed, overworked, unsupported, uncared for, or abandoned. But for a husband, sex is pure need.” That’s a disgusting lie that could lead women who take it to heart into a horrible situation in which they feel morally obligated to have sex with someone who is abusing them.😠
— 20 hours, 20 min ago
Julie Padgett
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“Shortly after we were married, my husband called from work and said he wanted me to prepare a certain chicken dish for dinner. I went to the store, got the food, prepared the dish, and when he came home, he walked in the door and said bluntly, “I don’t feel like chicken tonight, I want lamp chops.” This is from a section about lowering your expectations of your husband. 🤔🤢
— 23 hours, 8 min ago
Julie Padgett
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“You have to believe the part of your relationship that has been eaten away by pain, indifference, and selfishness can be restored. You have to trust that what has swarmed over you, such as abuse, death of a child, infidelity, poverty, loss, catastrophic illness, or accident, can be relieved of its death grip.” 🤢 Can we please stop insisting wives are morally obligated to stay with abusive and unfaithful men?
— Oct 25, 2026 06:02AM
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Idk if you're reading the study guide as well, but this reminded me of a prompt in there that bothered me: "Do you have any anger, unforgiveness, hurt, or disappointment toward your husband? Explain why. Even if you have a good reason for feeling the way you do, write out a prayer confessing those negative thoughts as sin and ask God to set you free from them. I know this is hard if you feel justified in your feelings, but this prayer of confession and repentance must come first before you can begin praying for your husband with a right heart and see answers to your prayers." What??? What if your husband cheated on you or abused you? Are you just supposed to plaster on a smile and act like it's all fine and dandy in order to stay in God's good graces? This kind of sentiment is just setting abused women up to be gaslit into thinking they are the problem in their marriages.
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I don’t have the study guide.. Wow, that’s an awful thing to tell wives to do. 😣 These teachings have undoubtedly led many women into staying in horrible situations, if they bought into the author’s message. It’s so sad and disturbing what she teaches. Christians really need to do better in teaching in this area. 😞