The Orphaned Wife: The story of how one woman survived emotional abandonment in a Christian marriage, and her healing journey toward emotional wholeness. - Softcover

Cunningham, Julie

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9781733452502: The Orphaned Wife: The story of how one woman survived emotional abandonment in a Christian marriage, and her healing journey toward emotional wholeness.

Synopsis

The life of the Orphaned Wife is a quiet nightmare. She lives in isolation from her emotionally detached husband, cutting her off from the close connection found in a healthy marriage. She feels starved for intimacy. It crushes her self-esteem. She feels unheard and unwanted. She's frustrated and unhappy. Even though she lives for years in a soulless, dying or dead marriage, her friends and family don't believe her. She can't explain the hidden reality of her situation, because everyone around her sees that she is married to a "nice" man. She feels trapped and powerless because she can't save the marriage by herself. In The Orphaned Wife, the author tells her story of living in a marriage with an emotionally disconnected man, and how God used that marriage as a catalyst for her healing journey of transformation from isolation to belonging, desolation to wholeness, and bondage to freedom.

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