Telling the Truth

connecting the dots of my life

Tag: Submission to Male Authority

November 4, 2015

Faculty Wife | Part 17

Nouthetic Counseling - guardthyheart

This is one of the more bizarre things that has happened to me. Somewhat like My First Boss. I didn’t see it coming and I could scarcely believe it was happening. Read the rest of this entry »

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April 28, 2015

Early Marriage | Part 3

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Park Street Church Sanctuary, Summer 2003

It’s Fall 1965. I’m 22 years old, just barely married. Whatever ‘women’s rights’ means, it hasn’t reached me yet. The word ‘feminism’ is unknown in my small circles. As far as I know, the term ‘sexism’ has yet to be invented. Read the rest of this entry »

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March 14, 2015

Courtship and Engagement | Part 2

It’s the early 1960s. I’m at a conservative Bible college in the Deep South. I now have a serious boyfriend, David (D). Along with other single students, we live according to the rules. Bible college rules, and the unwritten social rules of the Deep South.

We don’t talk about sexuality directly; Read the rest of this entry »

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