ÿþLet's look at this through the lense swimming goggles of logic, reason, evidence-based practical advice about what consistutes human well-being and flourishing, as well as decades of women just wasting their precious lives praying/waiting for "change." If you really think you are being fooled, played, etc.  why deal at all in some waiting game ( even if children are involved)? Why would you ever wait for anything to "change?"  Especially given the recidivism rates re:abuse. How would you ever even know what had sustainably, actually,  really changed? People can repent all their lives of all kinds of things, where is the evidence-based data (out-of-sample) for real metanoia? The kind described here for example: The Great Meaning of Metanoia: An Underdeveloped Chapter in the Life and Teachings of Christ  by Treadwell Walden.

Nothing looks statisticaly significant in terms of it being sustainable. I mean, look at the described cycle it is the model of no sustainable change. I would think supportive and trusting relationships, high levels of warmth would make for low levels of repeated abuse but that is just not the case (re: The Endless Cycle of Abuse)....Just understand you and your children's financial and legal situation, file a divorce and get away from the person, as far, and as much as possible. If he is triggering your insecurities and making you question if he has really changed, then honestly,  what are you waiting for? swim goggles prescription I understand some (not all) of the complexities with the children ( what a total mess) but honestly, how much can you really help them if you are angry, bitter, resentful and constantly tormented by his abuse....

More than this, I think we can tell what our God is by simply looking at the highest value that we embody/ that we act out.  That is our God. The thing that always hangs me is that if the Bible needs swimming goggles best amendments, needs text-twisting, needs cherry-picking, I don't think we have an absolute moral standard, but a free-for-all. Hermeneutics, exegesis, text-deconstruction can be used to logic to whatever conclusion we like. More than this, to think that we are not massively biased (including me, maybe especially me) is naive....What appears to me to be the way to find "The Truth" (As best we can, given our limitations) is to make an iron-man out of arguments we don't like, not a straw-man. Then we see if we can honestly deconstruct those iron-men,  if we can! We make the strongest case possible for what we don't want, what we don't like to do and we see if we can honestly make a better case than that.

When in reality it often reinforces the unhealthy behavior and dynamic to continue to spiral down even if it's not so obvious at first. No, I've not been to a counselor. We don't have swimming goggles target the extra money eight now. When I have said no in the past, he usually now just ignores me and doesn't talk to me for a week& .if he does its how much he needs me to show him attention. So I don't get why I'm the one that needs to meet his needs, but when it comes to mine he doesn't get it. The Lord has become my dearest friend and I have learned to just find other things to do. I just get lonely for attention and affection outside the bedroom. I give my body to him because I feel like that's what God would have me to do& .I don't want him looking elsewhere. That may be part of it. Reading this blog has helped me to begin to understand that these things are not ok.

It is likely that your husband will never change. Yet, Kaitlyn you MUST change. At the moment you feel that you have things under control, but in time your maladaptive behavior will take a toll on your emotional and physical health. The body and mind can not remain in such a perverse state without internally crying out for justice. Please, take better care of yourself. You deserve it! Katlyn, You describe a lot of early years of my marriage ~ what I also refer as my past marriage. Currently, to try my best to say it gently but firmly& you are NOT in a marriage married to a Godly man, but you are married or joined as roommates to a  boy'. He hasn't grown up and certainly won't most likely unless confronted with his self-centered ideals. He needs intensive therapy most likely and if you do a history on the Family of origin, you may find a lot of neglect in parenting in his past.

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