Flashback to July 22, 2012 … “I am satisfied that the more unkindly a wife is treated, the less attractive she becomes. She loses pride in herself. She develops a feeling of worthlessness. Of course it shows.”* I have been thinking about this quotation a lot since I left my husband six months ago. I… Read More Starting to remember
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Flashback to July 6, 2012 … It rained tonight. In fact, it was a torrential downpour. My friend Emily had scooped me up to take me out for a much-needed girls’ night, and as we drove through sheets of water, the gutters began to overflow and mini-rivers gurgled down the drains around us. Enormous bursts… Read More Dancing in the rain
It’s Tuesday! Time for “Might Be a Mama!” You might be a mama if … You sneak stuff into the trash and bury it so no one cries or asks for it back. Unless otherwise indicated, pieces in this series are my original work. Please share! But if you do, be sure to link back and/or… Read More Top Secret Trash
If you’ve ever been engaged or spent significant time around someone who is, you’ve seen it. Each participant, temporarily dubbed ‘fiancé,’ exists in a sort of limbo, neither married nor single. But then the big day comes and they graduate to something more substantial: spouses. Life becomes stable. Whew. No more limbo ever again. Right? Just… Read More The ‘backside’ of marriage
This past week, Christian and I had some spare time to play around with my just-turned-three-year-old, Liam. He chose his elaborate plastic tool bench, complete with noisy battery-operated power tools, as he often does. My husband is a carpenter by trade, so this is always fun for the boys on many levels. We pounded, drilled,… Read More Mr. Fix-it
Exactly two years ago today, on February 28, 2012, I started an anonymous blog called Healing at Heaven’s Fountain under the pen name, “Angel Williams.” I had happened upon sort of an underground faith-based anti-porn movement. I was elated when I learned that as an in-cognito wife of a porn addict I was not alone as… Read More Flashbacks & the Mysterious Underground Blogosphere
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It’s Wear Purple Wednesday! Show your support for National Eating Disorders Awareness this week. In the mean time, want to know what this thing is really about? Don’t really get it? Wonder what it’s like to be in the head of an amazingly gorgeous person (inside and out) who has a life-threatening eating disorder? My incredibly… Read More Beauty and the Purple Beast
I was clicking around in one of my anti-porn groups and found a great (faith-based) article for kids on what to do if they see porn: “Oh No! Now What?” Here’s a quick peek: “It can happen anywhere—at home, at school, or at a friend’s house. Suddenly you see something you know isn’t good—on a phone, TV,… Read More “Oh no! Now what?”
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