[from the archives] I realize my recent blog posts (starting with Escalating Control) have brought a challenge in thinking to those who believe it is unsubmissive and therefore sinful for a wife to admonish or correct her husband. Loving admonishment and correction are good and necessary for the Christian life—for ALL Christians. Admonishment means to… Continue reading Unsubmitted?
Category: Barbie’s Testimony of Discipling Her Husband
No Longer Fostering Lies
[from the archives] Some of you have read my story of my husband’s four day long grudge and wondered, “Why didn’t you just tell him why the branches were still on the road? Why didn’t you just let him know the truth? Why didn’t you just apologize that it didn’t get done? Some of you… Continue reading No Longer Fostering Lies
Blame Confronted
My husband had agreed that I could tell him the truth by showing him how he was untruthful in blaming others for things they didn’t actually do, as I wrote about in my previous blog post. The next day I was on the look out for a very clear example to show him so that… Continue reading Blame Confronted
Becoming Objective and Accurate
[from the archives] Over the past several blog posts I’ve been remembering and recounting how the Lord set me free from allowing my husband to control me. I began this part of my story with Peeling Bananas in Secret. The situations I’ve been recounting happened in February, March and April of 2006. Over the next… Continue reading Becoming Objective and Accurate
Available to be Parented
[from the archives] My repentance and freedom from my self-centered ways of being motivated and controlled by my husband’s accusations and anger brought even more changes to our lives. (See the previous posts for the beginning of this story, starting here) I realized that since I had been receiving Tim’s blame and believing that I… Continue reading Available to be Parented
No Longer Blind
[from the archives] My freedom from selfish ways of relating with my husband, Tim (that I’ve been recounting over my last few blog posts starting here), opened my eyes to see his behavior in a different light. I became able to see how hurtful his relational habits were to the children. He was not treating… Continue reading No Longer Blind
Not My Fault??
[from the archives] This post is a continuation of a story that begins with this post, Peeling Bananas in Secret. The previous part of this story is here: Dead to Sin All the things that I learned about my relationship with my husband that I’ve been recounting in my last few blog posts happened over… Continue reading Not My Fault??
Dead to Sin
[from the archives] “The Lord has a plan for you to cooperate with Him in bringing His ways of love into your family, but you can’t hear Him or even begin to cooperate with Him as long as you are a slave to your own addiction to what you are trying to get from them.… Continue reading Dead to Sin
Slaves to Sin or to Righteousness?
[from the archives] In continuing my story from my previous blogs, it was only a few days later when the Lord spoke through my conscience again about the way I was habitually relating with my husband. I had an event that day that took me away from home before dinner and before my husband got… Continue reading Slaves to Sin or to Righteousness?