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Flying Free

But Maybe God Will Do a Miracle and Change My Husband! [22]

Flying Free

Natalie Hoffman

Emotional, Spiritual, Narcissism, Self-improvement, Marriage, Abuse, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Divorce, Christianity, Education

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Why do I still keep hoping my abusive spouse will change?

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com, and you're listening to the Flying Free

0:09.9

podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

0:16.4

emotional and spiritual abuse. Welcome to episode 22 of the Fine Free Podcast. Today I have Rachel with me. Hi Rachel.

0:28.0

Hi Rachel.

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Hi. And we have some really great questions from listeners today.

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So we're going to try to answer, we'll try to answer four of them.

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And Rachel and I were just talking before we started recording here and we were just kind of sharing some of our different thoughts about these questions and we are both kind of coming at them from a little different angles and I think that I think there'll be a lot of food for thought

0:56.1

in today's podcast episode so let's play the first question and we'll get started

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Why do I still hope that my abusive husband will have a God moment and have god

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sorrow and call me with repentant hard not change hard so that we can restore our

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marriage. Why do I keep hoping for that? I went through so much of use. Thank you.

1:25.0

Well I think that you have to accept the fact that you do love your husband and so that love has

1:35.4

inspired all sorts of hope in you and it's possible that maybe there's still some

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grief that needs to be processed over the loss of that hope and the fact that perhaps this is never going to happen that he may not ever choose to repent and that it won't be possible for the marriage

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to be restored.

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So I just want to encourage you to ask God to put a new hope in your heart and to grieve that dream of how things could have been and that image that you had

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and that sort of sustained you for all those years and sounds like it's still sort of sustaining you and you're still hoping

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on that.

2:17.0

Grief is such an important process and one that I think we avoid to our own detriment because it is so painful.

2:25.0

Yeah, I would add to that to, I'm in the middle, actually I'm done reading this book

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called Brain Talk by David Schnark,

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and I think I might have mentioned it in one of my other

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