Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
06.08.2024
Verlag
St. Martin's Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
304
Maße (L/B/H)
23,8/15,7/2,7 cm
Gewicht
478 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-250-28828-8
"Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn't a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me."
Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list of additional life principles--a series of secret, special rules to obey. Being a godly and submissive wife in Christian Patriarchy included strict discipline, isolation, and an alternative lifestyle that appeared wholesome to outsiders. Women were to be silent, "keepers of the home." Tia knew that to their neighbors her family was strange, but she also couldn't risk exposing their secret lifestyle to police, doctors, teachers, or anyone outside of their church. Christians were called in scripture to be "in the world, not of it." So, she hid in plain sight as years of abuse and pain followed. When Tia realized she was the only one who could protect her children from becoming the next generation of patriarchal men and submissive women, she began to resist and question how they lived. But in the patriarchy, a woman with opinions is in danger, and eventually, Tia faced an urgent and extreme choice: stay and face dire consequences, or flee with her children. Told in a beautiful, honest, and sometimes harrowing voice, A Well-Trained Wife is an unforgettable and timely memoir about a woman's race to save herself and her family and details the ways that extreme views can manifest in a marriage.Kundinnen und Kunden meinen
A story of love, resilience and healing
Bewertung am 12.02.2025
Bewertungsnummer: 2410975
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)
Such a great book, honestly. This story is heartbreaking, moving and shocking.
It left me in absolute awe of the author - Tia Levings. In the book she recounts her experiences first as a teenager, and later as a young adult – wife and mother – in the framework of a strict fundamentalist religious household. Following the religious teachings and traditions she had to spend years trying to submit to her husband, being under constant control and suffering emotional as well as physical abuse. She had to give up her education, her dreams, personal opinions and even political rights to fit in.
Even though breaking out of this situation, saving herself and her children set her free, Tia doesn’t shy away from the reality of her trauma and losses. Distancing herself from her abusive husband and religion didn’t heal her wounds. She had to work on herself a lot to regain control of her life, stop trying to please people around her undermining herself in the process and come to terms with her losses.
I listened to audiobook narrated by Tia herself and it made the whole experience even better.
I can’t recommend this book enough.
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