**Content Warning: DV, rape, SA** Tia Levings discusses her dark reality in Christian fundamentalism, with evangelical patriarchy and religious trauma.  Having appeared in the Amazon docu-series, Shiny Happy People, and written a harrowing memoir, A Well-Trained Wife she reveals how she had to save herself and her family and details the ways that extreme views can manifest in a marriage.
Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list of additional life principles––a series of secret, special rules to obey. Being a godly and submissive wife in Christian Patriarchy included strict discipline, isolation, and an alternative lifestyle that appeared wholesome to outsiders. Women were to be silent, “keepers of the home.” But in the patriarchy, a woman with opinions is in danger, and eventually, Tia faced an urgent and extreme choice: stay and face dire consequences, or flee with her children.
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• How Tia was raised that led to falling prey to her husband


• Did Tia's parents read her book?


• Nightmarish doctrine Tia learned in her youth


• All that's needed is a submissive and willing spirit


• You will drown in a lake of fire if you are not pleasing to God


• Selling the patriarchal movement to women- what that literally means


• Not allowed to have anything for yourself as a woman


• TW: Domestic ab*se- calling it a "correction"


• How Tia emerged from the isolation through secret online communication with women


• What it was like being a mother within this ab*sive reality


• Tia decided to escape when she saw how it was hurting her chiIdren


•  Tia's escape story


• How Tia's children handled it all


•  When did Tia feel safe enough to deconstruct and begin healing?


• Advice for someone going through a similar situation

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