What if Your Husband Orders You to Work?

What if Your Husband Orders You to Work? November 2, 2018

Screen cap of Lori Alexander’s Instagram wall

Lori Alexander of The Transformed Wife is apparently rewriting some of various quiverfull enforcer’s words into her little notebook memes in an attempt to β€œgo viral”. This is from Mary Pride’s book β€œThe Way Home” written back in 1985.

The thing I’ve always wanted to ask Mary Pride, Lori Alexander, Nancy Campbell and the others in the pile of quiverfull female enforces is a question that kept cropping up at my old quiverfull church in the women’s groups. What is a woman to do if she is married to a man that insists she not stay home and raise children? What if he insists that you work outside of the home? Are you supposed to obey him? Or be in rebellion and refuse?

Not so easy is it ladies…

Asking this question was always divisive. Some would say you were under absolute requirement to obey your husband no matter what he told you to do. Others would take the stance that you should refuse because his desire for you to work outside of the home was clearly sinful, and you were not to follow any order to sin.


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Suzanne Titkemeyer went from a childhood in Louisiana to a life lived in the shadow of Washington D.C. For many years she worked in the field of social work, from national licensure to working hands on in a children's residential treatment center. Suzanne has been involved with helping ithe plights of women and children' in religious bondage. She is a ordained Stephen's Minister with many years of counseling experience. Now she's retired to be a full time beach bum in Tamarindo, Costa Rica with the monkeys and iguanas. She is also a thalassophile. She also left behind years in a Quiverfull church and loves to chronicle the worst abuses of that particular theology. You can read more about the author here.

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