Episode 240: Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy (feat. Cait West) plus Why People Deconstruct

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

Marriage, Social Sciences, Science, Relationships, Sex, Christianity, Wife, Religion & Spirituality, Mother, Society & Culture, Advice, Family

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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What happens when your family gets sucked into fundamentalism, and your father insists on controlling your life, including who you will marry? You grow up under Christian patriarchy, and you experience serious emotional abuse. Today Cait West joins us to talk about her absolutely beautiful memoir Rift, about how and why she had to break free. Then Keith and I talk about why people are deconstructing, and why it’s so desperately important to listen to stories like Cait’s.About Cait West:Find C...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Greaggar from Bear Marriage.com where we like to talk about
0:16.4	healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage. And I am joined
0:22.0	right now by my husband Keith.
0:23.4	Hey everybody.
0:24.3	You're going to go away in a sec
0:25.5	because we have an interview and you're coming back afterwards.
0:27.6	But today we are in the middle of our deconstruction podcast series.
0:33.4	So we've got a bunch of people's stories
0:35.6	that we're gonna look at all in a road
0:37.6	to see where people end up, why they ended up there,
0:40.9	what is going on with deconstruction, and so much more.
0:44.0	So I am so excited to bring Kate West's story to you today.
0:47.9	She wrote an amazing memoir called RIFT
0:51.4	about her experience growing up in a really controlling family and in the courtship
0:57.0	model which really didn't work for her.
0:58.8	So that's coming up in a second.
1:00.4	Before we get to that, I do want to say thank you to some very special people who help us do what we do
1:06.2	So first of all to our patrons who give just a little bit a month and with that they get unfiltered podcasts Rebecca and Joanna just recorded about 12 of them last week
1:16.2	They got together in Edmonton and did that so they'll be released over the year
1:20.5	They get access to our Facebook group and so much more and it's a great place isn't it?
1:25.4	Oh yeah, yeah a lot of fun discussion.
1:27.6	Yeah and and so if you just want some behind the scene stuff I often I often talk about the posts I'm writing or podcast
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