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Some Types of Marital Abuse Calls for a Wife to Submit or Apologize

In our generation, the word abuse is applied to all kinds of situations—the kind where the wife should call the cops, the kind where she should tell the elders, the kind where she should apply 1 Pet. 3, and the kind where she…

In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2021, from Blog & Mablog, cited to the source.

In our generation, the word abuse is applied to all kinds of situations—the kind where the wife should call the cops, the kind where she should tell the elders, the kind where she should apply 1 Pet. 3, and the kind where she should apologize to her mother for marrying this guy against her mother’s wise cautions. But there is an abuse that no Christian woman should tolerate.

— Douglas Wilson, “Letters Over the Transom”, Blog & Mablog (dougwils.com), November 16, 2021 Source ↗