Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar

147 reviews

sarahina_b's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Jill did an amazing job of capturing the harm that organized religion has inflicted on her family while holding such grace and love for everyone involved. 

As someone who has lived under a family that idolized the Duggar lifestyle, this was both hard and relieving to listen to and understand more thoroughly why my parents made the decisions that they did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Misogyny, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Rape, Miscarriage, Mental illness, and Cancer

casserole1998's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

3.0

I never watched the Duggars, so I started this book knowing nothing about them except that they were conservative Christian, had a lot of kids, and that Josh had been charged with SA and found with CP recently.
I really enjoyed this book a lot. It is incredibly difficult to stand up for yourself and enforce boundaries with a parent. I'm sure it is even more difficult when you have your parents and 18 siblings who don't agree with those boundaries (or at least can't speak out in support). The easy thing is to just go along with things, keep the peace, and not rock the boat. Jill made the difficult decision to rock the boat, enforce her boundaries, and push for what she felt was fair. She prioritized her peace above the family's (her dads), and had very little support, only her husband. That takes a lot of strength, and that is very admirable.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Emotional abuse

Minor: Child abuse

kshurtz13's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

olheckerd's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

jackiepreston's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

lilcogle612's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Sexism, Pedophilia, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Infidelity

brittany_roffers's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

Jill ate and left no crumbs. This book was wonderfully written and beautifully narrated. You can feel the trama she went through, even if you haven't dealt with religious trauma, you feel her pain and struggle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, and Sexism

Moderate: Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual assault

maziemouse's review

medium-paced

4.0

We’ve heard countless stories of the damage of putting kids on television or in movies (Drew Barrymore, Macaulay Culkin, Jeanette McCurdy, etc.), yet the practice continues today, especially through social media “influencers.” When is enough…enough?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Misogyny

orchidforever's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

While I can see why people feel like she wasn’t harsh enough, it gave me hope that the road I am on is right. We can appreciate the past while also acknowledging the bad and holding the people accountable. Relationships are complicated. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Child abuse

breadhag's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexism, Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Grief