How Do I Know if Divorce Is the Right Choice for Me? [316]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, I explore the complex question: Is divorce worth it? For women who have endured long-term emotional and psychological abuse in marriage, this decision is often fraught with fear, confusion, and uncertainty.
I examine the disadvantages of staying in an abusive relationship, as well as the significant challenges faced during and after the divorce process. With thought-provoking questions and practical insights, this episode will help you assess whether leaving your marriage is the right choice for you. If you're feeling trapped and looking for clarity, support, and a path forward, this episode is for you.
Key Takeaways:
- The emotional and psychological toll of staying in an abusive marriage.
- Physical and financial disadvantages of staying.
- Social and legal challenges of remaining in abuse.
- The harsh reality of divorce.
- Life after divorce—the path to healing.
- Guiding questions to determine if divorce is the right choice for you.
Read the show notes and/or ask Natalie a question here
Related Resources:
- Check out my interview with the founder of the app, Aimee Says, and then try it out for yourself!
- Read the article I mentioned, “How to Leave an Emotionally Abusive Relationship: 10 Steps.”
- Are you wondering what is happening inside your own painful and confusing marriage? I wrote a book just for you called Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage: A Christian Woman’s Guide to Hidden Emotional and Spiritual Abuse.
- My book, All the Scary Little Gods, is a spiritual memoir about healing from religious trauma and toxic programming.
- Flying Free is our online community educating and supporting Christian women in emotionally abusive marriages. Whether you want to stay in your marriage or leave, we want to equip you through this program.
- Flying Higher is my live mentorship program for any Christian woman interested in 10Xing their self-development progress.
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| 0:00.0 | In episode 316 of the Flying Free podcast, we are going to dive into the question of whether or not divorce is worth it, especially for women who have endured long-term emotional and psychological abuse. |
| 0:13.0 | This episode will cover the emotional, physical, financial, and social disadvantages of staying in an abusive marriage, as well as the extensive challenges |
| 0:22.9 | encountered during and after the divorce process. I'm going to give you some thought-provoking |
| 0:28.0 | questions to consider when deciding if divorce is the right choice for you. I want to empower you |
| 0:34.6 | to make an informed decision about your future. |
| 0:45.5 | Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of FlyingFreeNow.com, and you're listening to the Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for women of faith looking for hope and healing from hidden emotional |
| 0:52.1 | and spiritual abuse. |
| 0:59.6 | Welcome to episode 316 of the Flying Free podcast. I just want to read you a review that came in and she said this. I've been in a painful |
| 1:06.0 | and confusing marriage for 37 years, but after three and a half months here in flying free, I am zero |
| 1:13.3 | confused. The courses are like CPR and intensive care. Okay. So if if you have been in a painful and |
| 1:22.6 | confusing marriage for a long time like this member and like hundreds of our other members, |
| 1:27.2 | I feel like Christian |
| 1:29.0 | women especially just really give their relationships they're all. And they are so committed |
| 1:35.1 | that it often takes decades for them to finally just go, I don't know if I can sustain this anymore. |
| 1:40.7 | But if that sounds like you, and you need CPR and intensive care, consider joining us. |
| 1:47.3 | You can go and learn more by going to join FlyingFree.com. All right, today we're going to be talking |
| 1:52.8 | about the question that I get a lot in our program in the kaleidoscope. The kaleidoscope is our |
| 1:59.8 | private forum where we interact with one |
| 2:02.3 | another. Those members and the professional coaches that work within my program. And one of the |
| 2:09.0 | questions that comes up a lot is, is it is divorce worth it? You know, I mean, they're in these |
| 2:14.2 | painful marriages and they, I remember, this is going to sound terrible, |
| 2:20.8 | but from what I've, you know, talked to other women about, I think this is actually a common |
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