S2 E5 | Red Flags We Shouldn’t Ignore in Relationships
Therapy and Theology
Proverbs 31 Ministries
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a new series of Therapy & Theology: "Let's Stop Avoiding This Conversation: 6 Topics Women Have Big Questions About."
Join Lysa TerKeurst; her licensed professional counselor, Jim Cress; and Proverbs 31 Ministries' Director of Theological Research, Dr. Joel Muddamalle, for a conversation about therapy and theology.
In Episode 5, we'll tackle how the word "submission" has been abused and what it looks like to identify if a relationship has gone from dysfunctional to destructive.
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- Want more wisdom as you navigate hard relationship dynamics? Find practical next steps, powerful scriptures and timely guidance on how to set realistic, healthy boundaries in Lysa TerKeurst's new book, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes. In the pages of this book, Lysa's personal counselor, Jim Cress, also provides therapeutic insight surrounding the topic of boundaries, helping you confidently apply what you read. Order here.
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| 0:00.0 | We're not going to tell you what to think. We're going to give you a lot to think about. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome to this episode of Therapy and Theology. Let's get started. |
| 0:15.5 | We know relationships are wonderful until they're not. Lisa Tarkers also understands this, |
| 0:20.8 | and that's exactly why she wrote her new book, Gibandre's and Gabbaz. Although the |
| 0:24.6 | details of your relationships might be different, her hope in prayer is that she can come alongside |
| 0:29.1 | you with compassion as a friend to show you that it isn't unloving to set a boundary and it |
| 0:34.2 | isn't un-Christian to sometimes have to say a necessary goodbye. These are hard topics, but we |
| 0:39.5 | can navigate them together. Secure your copy of Gibandre's and Gabbaz today at p31bookstore.com. |
| 0:45.7 | Now on to Lisa, Jim and Joel. I want to talk about a topic that is complicated and yet is |
| 0:56.0 | affecting women a lot. It doesn't just affect women, obviously I want to say it affects young |
| 1:03.5 | people that are not grown up, it affects men, but for the purpose of our conversation tucked within |
| 1:11.8 | this series, specifically focusing on women, I want to talk about emotional abuse. The reason that |
| 1:18.8 | this is so complicated is, and I'm sure there are lots of reasons it's so complicated, but |
| 1:26.9 | when I hear women talking about emotional abuse, I either hear it one extreme that they call almost |
| 1:35.6 | everything emotional abuse. Anything hard, challenging, difficult, even like a corrective |
| 1:45.9 | criticism or whatever. It swung so far over that they're calling everything emotional abuse, |
| 1:53.9 | or more commonly what I'm hearing is they call very little emotional abuse because they're |
| 2:01.8 | nervous to even use that word abuse. It sounds so big and so definitive. Makes it real too in |
| 2:09.4 | their mind if I say that, oh my word. And yet it's affecting a lot of people. So instead of trying |
| 2:17.0 | to break apart, is this emotional abuse? Is this not emotional abuse? I want to just talk about today |
| 2:24.7 | a spectrum from a difficult relationship all the way to a destructive relationship. I want to |
| 2:32.9 | recognize where a difficult relationship turns into a destructive relationship. That has so |
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