What if My Abusive Husband Has Mental Health Issues? [310]

Flying Free

Natalie Hoffman

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

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

What if my abusive husband has mental health issues? Drawing on listener input, I tackle the complexities of abuse intertwined with mental health diagnoses such as bipolar disorder, ADHD, anxiety, and depression. I want to help you navigate the tricky waters of understanding biblical interpretations around staying in abusive relationships “in sickness and in health.” This episode is a lifeline for women seeking clarity and peace while healing and growing within difficult circumstances.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

Why anger and critical thinking are normal, healthy responses to injustice.
How to unhook from shaming tactics used by abusers and others.
The importance of stewarding your own mental, physical, and spiritual health.
A biblical perspective on “in sickness and in health” in the context of abusive relationships.
Why it’s not helpful to focus on parsing out mental illness vs. abuse in relationships.

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Related Resources:

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	Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying FreeNow.com, and you're listening to the Flying Free
0:10.0	podcast, a support resource for women of faith looking for hope and healing from hidden
0:16.4	emotional and spiritual abuse.
0:21.7	Welcome to episode 310 of the Flying Free Podcast.
0:26.4	Today, I'm going to answer two listener questions related to husbands who have mental
0:31.7	health issues.
0:33.0	Let's listen to the first question.
0:35.4	Hello, Natalie.
0:36.7	I'm just so thankful for your podcast.
0:39.2	It has helped me so much to feel like I'm not going insane and that my life is
0:43.3	worthwhile and that I'm worthy and loved.
0:48.0	And I just wanted to tell you something in my story and get your feedback or a podcast,
0:53.4	perhaps.
0:56.2	I'm separated from my husband since September 23. He was emotionally, verbally, and some physical abuse was done toward me over 16 years.
1:07.7	After we separated, my old church remained involved in his life and has provided him all kinds of
1:15.9	help and connected him with all kinds of resources. But still, he went into a downward spiral
1:21.7	and he lost his job. And he ended up, he got mental evaluation, you know, paid for in part by the church and everything.
1:30.2	And he ended up in a mental hospital for two stays at separate times.
1:34.7	And in the last stay, he was referred to an agency, adult protective services.
1:42.4	And this is really thrown me all for a tailspin because they're
1:46.7	providing him with, I mean, he has, you know, a social worker. He has this agency involved
1:51.9	that's investigating. And it's supposedly for abused and neglected adults. And meanwhile,
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