If you’re curious about the difference a church can make when CTPM walks alongside them to help them understand how to care for women in domestic abuse, check out this story. As told by “Lindsey,” written by Lauren Rose My husband and I met through mutual friends who attended his church. At first, I thought…
As told by Ann, written by Lauren Rose Now, at 78, I’m living in the peace God calls us to. Witnessing abuse in our home impacted my three siblings and me in different ways. Their stories are theirs to tell; this is my story. For me, God has restored what I lost as a child,…
As told by “Julie,” written by Lauren Rose Our dating relationship began with a long-distance challenge. He drove to see me the first week we met, and the love bombing started immediately. He told me he was going to marry me and painted this great life together. Just three months after meeting, we got married—a…
As told by “Hope Marie,” written by Lauren Rose In my 32 years of marriage, I endured every form of abuse possible. My husband was a sex addict from the beginning but then developed a drug addiction in the final four years of our marriage. He diverted narcotics from the hospital where he worked. The…
Written by Lauren Rose, as told by “Jessica” When I first met Charles, I was coming off a very recent, very messy breakup with a college boyfriend who had been physically abusive to me during our two-year relationship. Charles was clearly very well educated (having been in medical school at the time), and his reassuringly…
As told by “Kasey,” written by Lauren Rose When I was first dating my soon-to-be husband, it didn’t take long for several red flags to begin appearing…but I was too young, naïve, and love-starved to recognize them. Immediately after we married, he suddenly wanted nothing to do with me physically. I thought, I’m a good…
God doesn’t stand off from a distance watching as we suffer; He enters the brokenness with us, and when He does, it is life-changing…..Today, my prayer for you is that you will choose to receive the peace He offers in the midst of suffering, and that you will know the beauty of finding Him in the face of great brokenness.