Faithit

From your strong friend who might be secretly battling depression: "You forgot to check on me. Please, I beg you. Check on your strong friends like me."

Let these Bible verses remind you that God's love is unconditional. And, don't forget love one another just like God first loved us.

"It’s often in retrospect that we can clearly see what they did and how they manipulated us."

6 months into marriage, my doting husband—the megachurch pastor—added his own twist to the potent concoction: a double shot of disdain with a generous pour of chastising, gaslighting, and blame, shaken with a bit of mockery, and finished with a twist of zesty disgust at the mere sight of me.

Don't assume no one cares. Instead, you can safely assume someone probably feels defeated and a bit like she's failing. You can assume she's overwhelmed. Frustrated. Hopeless to the point where she's considered burning the place down and starting over somewhere new. You can assume she's tired. Soooo dang tired.

How do good parents miss child sexual abuse? It is simple.

“They were completely gone, there was no life left in them. They were blue. They were limp. There was no heartbeat. There was nothing."

It's an epidemic that's influencing an entire generation of children.