In this culture you are not really allowed to say no to who shows up and says they want you

If a man says he wants you then he's God's man for you.

And you have to learn how to adjust your feelings and thoughts around that.

That was Tia Lovings from the Shiny. That Amazon documentary that looked into the Duggers and the

Amazon documentary that looked into the

Duggers and the Gothard movement that founded or that the dugers subscribe to. Tia is joining us

today on the Bear Marriage Podcast and I'm Sheila Ray Greguar from Bear Marriage.com where we like to

talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage

And when Tia was looking for advice she did not get healthy evidence-based and biblical she got got fundamentalism, and she ended up

in a really abusive situation

that she had to find the courage to escape.

So I am so looking forward to sharing my interview

with her with you. Before we do that, though, I want to say her with you.

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