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Flying Free

Sometimes Divorce is a Gift of Mercy [028]

Flying Free

Natalie Hoffman

Emotional, Spiritual, Narcissism, Self-improvement, Marriage, Abuse, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Divorce, Christianity, Education

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

You may have heard horror stories about Christians who get divorced. But Natalie and Jeni, both abuse survivors and divorcees, discuss the benefits of a merciful divorce from an abuser.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com, and you're listening to the

0:09.2

Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

0:16.4

emotional and spiritual abuse.

0:21.3

Welcome to episode 28 of the Fine Free Podcast.

0:25.0

Today I have guest Jenny B, who's the founder and owner of Bismavans.com.

0:31.0

Jenny is also an emotional abuse survivor and

0:34.7

divorcee and personal friend of mine and we are going to be talking today

0:39.3

about the perks of being divorced. Now I realize that might sound kind of strange because divorce

0:45.1

is not generally thought of as a positive thing, but when you're married to

0:50.0

an abusive individual divorce can be a mercy of God. Many emotional abuse

0:55.3

victims are fearful about divorce and what's on the other side and it's true

1:00.4

that walking through divorce is not a walk in the park. It's terrifying.

1:08.1

But I always say that when you're married to an abuser, you have two choices. Hell and hell. But one hell leads to more hell and

1:17.9

the other hell leads to freedom. And it's that freedom and all the perks that come

1:21.8

with it that we're going to be talking about today.

1:24.2

So welcome Jenny.

1:25.2

Thanks so much Natalie.

1:27.0

It's so fun to be with you.

1:30.1

We were talking right before we got started here about a book that we both read that kind of

1:36.0

planted some ideas in our minds about what divorce would be like if we ever dared to think

1:41.3

about that as a possibility from our marriages.

1:43.7

You want to talk a little bit about that?

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