Did any of you naively think your husband would be amicable and cooperative when you split? If so what did you learn, and what would you do over again if you could know better?
Here are the answers from the psychological abuse survivors in my Confusion to Clarity Facebook group.
Read MoreAs Christian survivors of emotional and psychological abuse, when we realize that we must divorce our abusers because of their unwillingness to treat us with love like a decent human being should, we face the shattering of our lives as we know them and hoped they would be.
But when we go through a merciful, life-saving divorce, God supports our divorce and is there with us as we rebuild our lives.
I asked the abuse survivors in my Confusion to Clarity Facebook Community to share the benefits they’ve experienced because of their necessary divorce. Here are the ways they feel their life is better.
Read MoreI recently asked the beautiful survivors in my Confusion to Clarity FB Community “How did you come to know it was okay to divorce as a Christian?” “What helped you make the decision to divorce?”
I was surprised that all the answers I got were about how God guided them to divorce. Yes, God supports divorcing an abuser, and, yes, it’s Biblical to do so no matter what you’re being told by your pastor, elders, or others.
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