Dear Women, Your Life Is Bigger Than Marriage
One thing that genuinely breaks my heart is seeing women, especially in women’s groups and even Christian spaces, emotionally collapsing under the weight of relationships and marriages that are draining the life out of them. Every day, it’s another post: “Pray for my marriage.” “Pray for my husband.” “Pray he changes.” “Pray he comes home.” “Pray he stops cheating.” “Pray he starts treating me right.” And while prayer is powerful, I sometimes want to ask: At what point do we also pray for wisdom, clarity, self-worth, and courage? Because some of these women are carrying entire marriages alone. They are praying alone. Fighting alone. Trying alone. Growing alone. Meanwhile, the men they are desperately trying to hold onto are not even doing the bare minimum required of decent adult human beings, not spiritually, emotionally, mentally, or relationally. And somehow, women have been conditioned to believe tha...