What About When People Don't Validate My Experience of Abuse? [242]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
What do I do when people disagree with my decisions? Can I get remarried if I get a divorce? What if other people don’t believe I’m being emotionally abused? What if they think I’m making a big deal out of nothing? How will I get help?
These are the questions we’ll be diving into in today’s episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com and you're listening to the |
| 0:09.3 | Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden |
| 0:16.4 | emotional and spiritual abuse. |
| 0:22.1 | Welcome to episode 242 of the Flying Free Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | Today we're going to be exploring what do we do when people disagree with us. So there are two listener questions that are a |
| 0:35.4 | different version of this question and let's listen to the first one. |
| 0:39.3 | So as a woman divorced now, a Christian woman, my ex-husband, who is the narcissist, is getting |
| 0:47.4 | remarried after our divorce was finalized less than a month ago. And children my two adult children and one minor |
| 0:56.3 | child have the belief and my church believes that I do not have the ability to find love again that since I divorced I'm expected to remain single |
| 1:08.2 | and celebrate the rest of my life. So can you address this in your podcast? I would love to address this in this |
| 1:15.9 | podcast. In our world of 8 billion people there are also 8 billion different ideas about how to do the billions and billions of things |
| 1:27.4 | we humans do on planet Earth. |
| 1:30.3 | Some people think you shouldn't buy cars, but horses and buggies are okay. |
| 1:35.0 | Some people think you shouldn't eat pork, but cucumbers are legit. |
| 1:39.0 | Some people think women should always have long hair, |
| 1:42.0 | and some people think men should always have long hair and some people think men should always have long hair. |
| 1:45.6 | And some people think that if you get divorced, you can't get remarried. |
| 1:51.1 | Is it possible for us to follow the billions of varieties of rules for life that all these |
| 1:56.6 | billions of people have? And what about in history? We can add billions more ideas if we go back in time. |
| 2:03.0 | What would happen if all the humans thought it was their job |
| 2:08.0 | to have all the answers and then force everyone else to believe the exact same things. |
| 2:15.0 | Hitler tried that. |
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