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A review by happyeverabigail
A Well Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings
5.0
Tia put into words things I’ve either experienced, heard about in whispers, or for the more specifically religious experiences- simply wondered on a casual stumble upon an evangelical influencer or show on what could be or historically has been beneath the surface.
It’s pretty mind blowing when you step back and realize women are essential for continuing a movement hinged on making them submissive and oppressed, they are needed to vote, caretake, and provide free labor to bolster the cause and yet are disrespected at each turn. Tia slowly fell into this culture, questioning it all the way and yet it still happened, and it will forever live in my mind her description of realizations that (paraphrasing) sometimes it’s like a rising dawn and sometimes it’s quick like the light of an interrogation.
I also feel on her sharing solely the abusive relationship aspect, this story would help someone questioning “why didn’t they leave?” Tia went through so many different routes, even in efforts of just harm reduction for that time being, and you can see how life is more nuanced than a binary stay or leave especially with children.
I read this via audio and I highly recommend that format.
It’s pretty mind blowing when you step back and realize women are essential for continuing a movement hinged on making them submissive and oppressed, they are needed to vote, caretake, and provide free labor to bolster the cause and yet are disrespected at each turn. Tia slowly fell into this culture, questioning it all the way and yet it still happened, and it will forever live in my mind her description of realizations that (paraphrasing) sometimes it’s like a rising dawn and sometimes it’s quick like the light of an interrogation.
I also feel on her sharing solely the abusive relationship aspect, this story would help someone questioning “why didn’t they leave?” Tia went through so many different routes, even in efforts of just harm reduction for that time being, and you can see how life is more nuanced than a binary stay or leave especially with children.
I read this via audio and I highly recommend that format.