NLQ Featured Writer: Wandering One

July 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I Am So Much More Than a Maiden of Virtue by Wanderingone (1) I Learned To Keep My Fear Of Hell To Myself (2) Cousins (3) Biblical Chastisement (4) Little Things

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Dispelled: Part 11 Raging Rapids on the Sea of Change

July 3, 2012 By 6 Comments

by Chandra June came in on the wings of a splendid spring for Darren and I. My world had never been sunnier. It was a hopeful season full of the amazing gift of love between a man and his woman. We both knew we were going to become engaged, the question was one of timing. [...]

Filed Under: A Woman's Choice, Accountability, Big Happy Family Vision, Boundaries, Child Training, Coercive Religious Groups (Cults), Control, Courtship / Betrothal, Dispelled ~ One Girl's Journey in a Home School Cult, Drinking the Koolaid, Enmeshment, Fundamentalism, Honoring Parents, Instant, Joyous, Obedience, Issues, Judgementalism, Kobayashi Maru ~ The No-Win Scenario, Legalism, Maintaining Appearances, Manipulation, Markers of a Cult, Marriage Covenant, Mental / Emotional Health, NLQ Miscellany, NLQ Open Comments, NLQ Stories, Overbearing Mothers, Perfectionism, Personal Autonomy, Quiverfull Topics, Recovering from Spiritual Abuse, SASBN, Self-Preservation Factor, Self-Righteousness, Shunning, Spiritual Abuse, Spiritual Abuse & Recovery, Spiritual Abuse Survivors, Spiritual Issues, Submission, The Godly Woman, The Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network, Toxic Relationships Tagged With: , , , 6 Comments

Defrauding: The NLQ Buzzword Project

July 2, 2012 By 18 Comments
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by Calulu I have to admit. I too, just like Sierra, have a problem with Michelle Duggar and her recent comments on the beach and clothing that doesn’t fall into the realm of her idea of modesty. These are the only Duggar-approved swimwear available. You might as well be wearing a burkini, at least the [...]

Filed Under: Abstinence, Christian Modesty, Control, Defrauding, Fear of Hell, Hot Topics, Issues, JimBob & Michelle Duggar, Markers of a Cult, Marketing "Biblical Family Values", Mega-Families, Men are Visual, Mental / Emotional Health, NLQ Miscellany, NLQ Open Comments, Overbearing Mothers, Perfectionism, Proverbs 31 Woman, Purity, Quiverfull in the News, Quiverfull Leaders, Quiverfull Topics, SASBN, Sexuality, Shame, Spiritual Abuse & Recovery, Spiritual Abuse Survivors, Spiritual Issues, The Godly Woman, The Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network, Wholesome Wear Swimsuits Tagged With: , , , , , 18 Comments

The Duggar Family Doesn’t Go to the Beach, and Why That’s Bad for Their Kids

July 1, 2012 By 21 Comments

by Sierra This just in from the Department of Unintended Irony: Michelle Duggar makes a public statement about modesty, just to be sure you know how modest they are – too modest for the beach – in case you were straining your neck looking for their modest stairstep children in the crowd while you immodestly sunned [...]

Filed Under: 20 and Counting by JimBob & Michelle Duggar, A Love That Multiplies by JimBob & Michelle Duggar, Abstinence, Beautiful Girlhood, Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, Boundaries, Child Training, Christian Modesty, Control, Daughter of the Patriarchy by Sierra, Defrauding, Elitism, Fear tactics, Fundamentalism, Group Think, Hot Topics, Isolation, Issues, JimBob & Michelle Duggar, Judgementalism, Learned Helplessness, Legalism, Maintaining Appearances, Manipulation, Markers of a Cult, Marketing "Biblical Family Values", Men are Visual, Mental / Emotional Health, Motherhood, NLQ Miscellany, NLQ Open Comments, NLQ Stories, Overbearing Mothers, Perfectionism, Personal Autonomy, Proverbs 31 Woman, Purity, Quiverfull Books, Quiverfull in the News, Quiverfull Leaders, Quiverfull Resources, Quiverfull Topics, SASBN, Self-Righteousness, Sexuality, Shame, Sibling Relationships, Socialization, Spiritual Abuse & Recovery, Spiritual Abuse Survivors, Spiritual Issues, Submission, The Godly Woman, The Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network Tagged With: , , , , 21 Comments