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

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

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Okay, welcome to episode 117 of the Flying Free Podcast. Today I have with me

Jessica Gigliotti right yeah gigglyotti all of a sudden I was like

wait a minute on Gigliotti I when I first heard her name or saw her name I thought she I wonder if she's like from Italy or some

Romantic place like that no nothing that exciting

Oklahoma

Oklahoma okay we can talk exciting. It's Oklahoma. He's from Oklahoma.

Okay, we can talk about the origins of every name in a minute.

But she's a mom of four.

She has contributed twice to the chicken soup for the soul books. And she's an author, a small business owner, a college student, and a survivor.

And we are going to talk today about consent in marriage, which I don't think we've talked about this at all on the

podcast and I don't think I've ever even addressed it on my blog so I'm kind of

of excited to have this conversation with you. So welcome. Thank you. I'm really, really excited to be here.

Awesome. So we were just getting started talking before we pressed the record button and I want and then I was like no I want everyone to hear this so let's

go back and talk about how you got into this whole you're a survivor yourself

are you divorced?

I am.

We're divorced a final six months ago, so we are fresh.

Okay, freshly, newly divorced.

And you've kind of gone down the road of studying consent in marriage the whole sexual

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