Home / Books / A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

Book by Tia Levings · 1 quotes · Daughters, Generational, Iblp

Browse quotes from A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy.

Book detail: A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.

Browse quotes from A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy.

The quotes below use the same card format as the rest of the site, including topics, source notes, copy actions, image creation, and sharing controls.

Filter quotes by topic

All Daughters Generational Iblp Mothers Religious Abuse Sons

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy Quotes

“All along, I thought I was protecting the kids. Shielding them from realities behind closed doors. Sacrificing to maintain a two-parent Christian home. Making hard, better choices for their faith, family, and education than I made for myself, trying to safeguard them from pain. But they saw. That was obvious now. And staying meant raising sons who hit women. Staying meant raising a daughter who stayed with the man who hit her. And that would be my fault. I'd be the one who taught them life like this was okay. I didn't just let erratic violence continue happening---I helped by refusing to leave. Good mothers don't let this happen to their kids.”

Mothers Daughters Sons Generational Religious Abuse Iblp

Book:A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

Source: A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy