Emotional Abuse vs. Healthy Conflict in a Christian Marriage: How to Tell the Difference - Emotional Abuse 101 | Part 3 [358]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I walk you through five crucial differences between a healthy Christian marriage and an emotionally abusive one.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- Healthy marriages = clarity, respect, and growth
- Abusive marriages = confusion, control, and punishment
- If you're constantly walking on eggshells, it's not normal.
- God never asked you to sacrifice your soul on the altar of someone else's entitlement.
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Related Resources:
- Check out the first two parts of this eight-part series: “The 10 Most Subtle Signs of Emotional Abuse in a Christian Marriage” and “The Art of Saying No: Setting Boundaries When You've Been Trained to Say Yes.”
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| 0:00.8 | Hey, beautiful butterflies. Before we get into our episode, I want to give you an important heads-up. |
| 0:06.2 | This past year, I've taken a few classes and courses related to advocacy for abuse victims. |
| 0:12.3 | I've also joined a couple of membership programs that were actually not related to abuse in any way. |
| 0:17.8 | One of the memberships I joined for about three months and then quit because there was |
| 0:22.7 | literally no follow-up or help, that costs around $60 a month. And the other membership I joined |
| 0:30.1 | that I'm still a part of and I absolutely love it because it offers so much value to me is about |
| 0:35.9 | $100 a month. One of the victim advocacy classes that I took |
| 0:40.6 | was about 90 minutes in length and cost over $250 for that class. And another one was eight hours |
| 0:48.6 | in length and cost over $500 for that class. Now for the past five years, I've kept the Flying Free program at $29 a month |
| 0:58.1 | or $290 for the entire year. And there are literally hundreds of hours of classes, coaching sessions, |
| 1:07.0 | and Q&As, plus other resources that will keep you learning and growing for a long time. |
| 1:14.0 | Plus, you get access to a private podcast and a private forum where you can interact with |
| 1:20.9 | hundreds of other Christian women and professional coaches. |
| 1:24.4 | Plus, our onboarding process is very clear, meticulous, and easy to walk through. Our support |
| 1:31.9 | is stellar. That is my commitment to our members. And honestly, I'm pretty proud of what we've |
| 1:38.3 | built together over the last nine years. But it's time to raise the price to better reflect the value. So starting January 1st, |
| 1:46.9 | the price is going up to $39 a month or $390 for a year. Not for our current members. No way. I |
| 1:56.3 | never raise prices for my current members. We still have a few founding members who are only paying |
| 2:03.6 | $120 a year for their membership. Why am I telling you this? Because if you've been on the fence |
| 2:10.7 | about joining, it's only fair for me to let you know that the prices are going up so that you can |
| 2:16.1 | get in before that happens. Because if you join |
| 2:19.5 | before January 1st, you get in on the lower price, the price we've had for the last five years, |
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