Daughter of the Patriarchy: Stuart of the Lovely Locks

July 12, 2012 By 5 Comments

  This is an installment of the Daughter of the Patriarchy series. Read the rest here. A couple of days after moving onto campus, Molly informed me that she was expecting a visitor. He was a friend from her Dungeons and Dragons group, coming by to pick up one of his books from their last game. [...]

Filed Under: Beautiful Girlhood, Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, College for Daughters, Daughter of the Patriarchy by Sierra, Emotional Purity, Fear of Hell, NLQ Miscellany, NLQ Open Comments, NLQ Stories, Purity, Quiverfull Topics, SASBN, Sexuality, Spiritual Abuse & Recovery, Spiritual Abuse Survivors, The Godly Woman, The Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network Tagged With: , , , , 5 Comments

Hey Christian Girl!

June 19, 2012 By 4 Comments
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Last night someone pointed NLQ to this great Tumblr account – Hey Christian Girl. If cheesy Christian-speak pickup lines trigger you then I would not visit the link. It’s funny and it’s sad at the same time because I can so hear these things coming out of the mouths of various young Christian guys I’ve [...]

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Pornography and the Fundy

June 19, 2012 By 17 Comments
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by Calulu (Warning, possibly triggering and some of the links are of the not safe for work variety.) Recently I started thinking about pornography. Not that I was partaking it in, it’s never done anything for me. I might as well be looking at a pile of rutabagas or dirty socks. It is what it [...]

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Who Was That Masked Man? Part 5

May 29, 2012 By 9 Comments

by Calulu So when we left off Tina was still believing that Tom was coming home. We were having nothing to do with the Smiths and Tom doesn’t come home. What he does do is go to my husband and ask him to talk to me about working a few mornings a week at his [...]

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Introducing, Raised Quiverfull!

May 28, 2012 By 5 Comments
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by Libby Anne Nine young adults who were raised in families involved in the Christian Patriarchy and Quiverfull movements have come together here to answer questions about their upbringing, their questioning, and their transition to lives in the normal world. Ranging in age from their early twenties to their early thirties, all have questioned and [...]

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