194-Abuse, Part 5: Sexual Abuse
Delight Your Marriage
Belah Rose
4.7 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
1 in 4 women this year will be sexually abused. You may never know who... your sister, best friend, daughter, mother, wife...
You may have been the victim. I'm so sorry for your pain and what you have been through. You are not alone and you do not need to feel shame any longer.
Today's podcast is to help all women process the pain of abuse. I think it affects all of us whether we ourselves have experienced it or not, we live in a culture where that is the norm...
- When was the last news show you were able to get through without hearing at least one incident of violence against a woman?
- 1 in 5 searches on the internet are for pornography and 90% of pornography is violent towards women.
- Most women who have been abused are not believed even if they have the courage to speak out--so most stay silent.
Here's what I cover:
- Why are women abused?
- Why the shaming question she is always asking herself: "why didn't I know better?" or "she was asking for it" isn't her fault based on her God-given nature
- My experiences with sexual abuse
- Why I think it's vital that we continue to understand women's experiences and give them a voice and let them know we hear them and believe them
- Why we all need to be speaking about it and not expect only the victims to
How does it affect your marriages...
- What if you have sex without wanting it in your marriage? Why that makes you feel abused even though it might not actually abused
- It affects sex, her feelings of safety and I have some specific guidance for that (get my specific guide referenced on the show! Send me a message to get the Connection Session Guide here: belah@delightyourmarriage.com)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Delight Your Marriage podcast, the show where you hear from amazing and inspiring |
| 0:08.1 | wives sharing their struggles, triumphs, and advice for this journey called marriage. |
| 0:13.9 | Here's your host, Bella Rose. |
| 0:18.2 | Hey and welcome. |
| 0:20.2 | Thank you so much for joining. If this is your first time to the show, welcome, welcome. I'm so grateful that you have decided to go ahead and tune in. And I hope that this is going to be an encouragement to you. It's kind of a challenging topic. In fact, it is a really challenging topic and sadly affects far more women than you would expect. |
| 0:45.2 | So yeah, so we're going to talk about some of that, who it affects and why this happens to women. Why why if you have experienced it, it may have |
| 0:57.8 | happened to you, what's going on in our culture. |
| 1:01.8 | And then I want to talk about healing, steps of healing and sorting through and how you |
| 1:09.5 | can heal even through your marriage and even specifically through |
| 1:14.4 | sex, which may seem completely counterintuitive, but I want to just give you a lot of hope. |
| 1:22.1 | So yeah, let's dive in. |
| 1:23.8 | Okay. dive in. All right. Well, so first off, I want to just say that I have not been, quote, |
| 1:43.5 | sexually abused in the maybe traditional sense, |
| 1:49.1 | if that makes sense, but I have experienced quite a lot that I think warrants the discussion. |
| 2:00.0 | I don't want to make the bar so high that we can't |
| 2:06.3 | talk about things that we haven't, quote, experienced. Because the problem is, if we require the |
| 2:13.9 | victims to talk about this, and they're the only ones that have the authority to talk about sexual abuse. Why then it doesn't get talked about |
| 2:22.3 | because it's too painful, it's too hard, you know. So I'm coming into this |
| 2:27.3 | conversation with a lot of humility because maybe you on the other end of this |
| 2:31.3 | microphone are saying, you know what, that's not really my experience or that's |
| 2:35.2 | not really how I feel through this. But let me just tell you, this is a first step. I'm hopeful |
| 2:40.7 | that this will get you feeling like you're not alone. I'm hopeful this will get you feeling like |
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