Elisabeth Klein

[...] surface of helping hurting women feel not so alone and crazy, or elevating the beauty of Christian marriage, or shaking the Church by the collective shoulders over domestic abuse or what-have-you. [...]

[...] . I was a controlling, critical nag. I had rules in my head of what a Christian man and a Christian marriage should look like and when we weren’t stacking up, I did everything in my power to make us [...]

[...] encouraged you, you would benefit from “Unraveling: Hanging onto Faith through the End of a Christian Marriage”, found here or “Living through Divorce as a Christian Woman”, found here. [...]

[...] encouraged you, you would benefit from Unraveling: Hanging onto Faith through the End of a Christian Marriage or Living through Divorce as a Christian Woman. [...]

[...] Faith through the End of a Christian Marriage”, found here or “Living through Divorce as a Christian Woman”, found here. [...]

[...] post helped you, I would encourage you to check out “Living through Divorce as a Christian Woman”, found here, or “Unraveling: Hanging onto Faith through the End of a Christian [...]

[...] post helped you, I would encourage you to check out “Living through Divorce as a Christian Woman”, found here, or “Unraveling: Hanging onto Faith through the End of a Christian [...]

[...] this post helped you, I would encourage you to check out “Living through Divorce as a Christian Woman”, found here, or “Unraveling: Hanging onto Faith through the End of a Christian [...]

[...] Spirit. Or mom.  So yeah. But what I am going to talk about is the woman in a hard marriage who stays the woman in a hard marriage year after year, despite all her [...]

[...] you cry. And I have been married before, for almost two decades. My marriage was not just a hard marriage, it was a broken marriage. Every day was a battle. My mind never stopped trying to decipher [...]

[...] . First of all, I one thousand zillion percent get where she’s coming from. During my hard marriage, it was difficult for me to hear stories of women in good marriages (which I was [...]

[...] completely disagreed with that pastor. I told her that she could absolutely glorify God in her hard marriage, just like there would be grace enough that down the line if she got a divorce, she could [...]

[...] , I never came across one written by a woman who actually experienced and lived through a difficult marriage.  But I have, and I remember the pain and confusion as clear as day, and I wanted to reach [...]

[...] this: As you might imagine, being a woman who is a journaler, being a woman who was in a difficult marriage, and being a woman whose current life’s work is to come alongside hurting women, I was [...]

[...] (what we call triggers) or hardened over by a need to self-protect. So, if you are in a difficult marriage right now that is cluttered with abuse or addiction issues, you, sweet one, are walking a [...]

[...] before that for 23 years. I’m a dating novice. One thing I learned through my very difficult marriage is not to settle. And though I have no intention of being what I hear people call a [...]

[...] will. Seek out counsel from someone you trust. Find either a woman who has been in a difficult Christian marriage or a Christian counselor who understands abusive marriages, and share your situation. [...]

[...] ; If this post helped you, I would encourage you to check out “Surviving in a Difficult Christian Marriage”, found here.     [...]

[...] shade. If this post helped you, I would encourage you to check out “Surviving in a Difficult Christian Marriage”, found here. [...]

[...] you are. If this post helped you, I would encourage you to check out “Surviving in a Difficult Christian Marriage”, found here. [...]

[...] our marriages with our partners. To women in difficult marriages who were trying to save our marriages, sometimes alone. To women in dying marriages who [...]

[...] Mother’s Day kits; -created and released an e-book for women who are living in difficult marriages; -created and released an e-book for women who are divorced; -created and released [...]

[...] and I remember and I understand and they’re not alone…they are the ones actually in difficult marriages, actually walking through divorces, actually raising their kids alone, actually [...]

[...] myself.” I moderate two private groups on Facebook for Christian women in either difficult marriages or going through difficult divorces. We are up to almost nine hundred women in two [...]

[...] one of these categories: 1) Living in a hard marriage, 2) Separated, 3) Divorced, 4) Single mom, 5) Going through a hard/sad season of any kind, 6) You like all the pink, 7) Or you’re [...]

[...] someone; but the bottomline is that ministry costs money, my time is valuable, and I am a single mom who  needs to support herself and her children. Why am I telling you this?  Because I am asking [...]

[...] Being a single mom is hard. It’s physically hard, emotionally hard, and spiritually hard. We battle loneliness, [...]

[...] Outreach: Waiting to Be Rescued Overcoming a Broken Heart Parenting on My Own The Life of a Single Mom: Church, We Must Do Better What God Has Taught Me Through My Divorce Post Divorce Struggles [...]

[...] a little less alone? If this post encouraged you, you’ll want to check out “Moving on as a Christian Single Mom”, found here. [...]

[...] Christian Marriage, Living through Divorce as a Christian Woman, & Moving On as a Christian Single Mom). [...]

[...] I love you and Jesus is here. If this post resonated with you, you’d enjoy “Moving On a Christian Single Mom” found here or “Calm in My Chaos” found here. [...]

[...] be still. –Exodus 14:14 If this post resonated with you, you’d benefit from “Moving On a Christian Single Mom” found here or “Calm in My Chaos” found here. [...]

[...] courage to pull the trigger. So thank you, my friend.) So, yes, I signed up for online dating.  (And no, this is not what I wrote on my profile, but I totally wanted to.)  [...]

[...] Last week I talked about how I was on an online dating site for eight days but that I took my profile down after an unfortunate incident so that I [...]

[...] ! 5. How to Move Forward When You Don’t Have All the Answers 4. Can I Date? 3. I Signed Up for Online Dating 2. Do Not Try to Win Your Husband Back 1. Sex & the Single Christian Girl Keep those [...]