Julie Padgett’s Reviews > The Power of a Praying Wife > Status Update

“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? 🤨

“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.😠

“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.” 🤢

“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?