To Stand Up and Speak: The Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blog Network

June 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

by Melissa Permission to Live My sister was the one who introduced me to No Longer Quivering. She didn’t actually mean to, she told me she was reading a website called Quivering Daughters, and when I googled it I found No Longer Quivering instead. I wanted to make sure that this was a good thing [...]

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Submission and Prison Cells: Part 2

June 16, 2012 By 3 Comments

by Melissa Permission to Live Click here for Part One Let me start by saying a sincere “I am sorry” to “Yellowbunnys” (whoever she was, and wherever she is now) and to all the other women I shamed that day. I was wrong. I was arrogant. I was hurtful. It is painful for me to even read [...]

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Submission and Prison Cells: Part 1

June 12, 2012 By 5 Comments
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by Melissa Permission To Live Almost five years ago, I was a devout conservative Christian. I had been married over two years, had a toddler Ms Action running around and a baby Ms Drama due in a few months. I loved my spouse beyond what I had ever thought love was when we first got [...]

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Raised Quiverfull: Questioning, Q. 2

June 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

by Libby Anne Raised Quiverfull Introduction — Questioning Summary Please be sure to click the above links to see an introduction to and explanation of this project, which involves a panel of nine young adults who were raised in Quiverfull families and have since questioned and left that ideology answering questions about their experiences.     What first [...]

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Unwrapping the Onion: Part 9: Starting a New Life

May 21, 2012 By 7 Comments

by Permission to Live This post is the final post in a series. Please click here to start with the series Introduction. It’s the spring of 2012 now, and we’ve moved to a new home in a new city and are making new friends and starting over. We’ve officially left the ministry and are making [...]

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