I wish I had had the opportunity to reach out to Anna Duggar and young women like her before they are sadly misguided by their parents, churches and future in-laws into oppressive, early marriages rather than being encouraged to develop as fully functioning members of society. Anna’s parents additionally betrayed her by sanctioning her marriage to a man they knew had already molested his sisters and others. They should have told her to run, not walk! It is an outrage to deprive women of education and opportunities in the name of Godliness. Women who are already in this situation will surely need help and support to make a life outside their church and family. Though Josh Duggar has admitted to being addicted to pornography and having committing adultery, and well as child molestation, Anna has to be facing tremendous from her parents, in-laws, church and friends to “stand by her man” where her role is to assume a portion the guilt of a straying spouse, supporting him in his weakness. If only she’d been more supportive, listened better, been a better lover……… Likely, Anna feels she has no skills, despite her years of mothering ang managing a home, feeling she can’t support the children alone. I challenge Anna to look at the children she brought into the world; children she is responsible to protect at all costs. They deserve a life free of perversion and shame. Should Anna decide to bravely make the decision to protect her children, she can change things for children at risk for abuse everywhere.
It’s a big step because she has to challenge a world view that normalizes abuse and torture as a form of mind control. I doubt that most abusers are intellectually sophisticated enough to know that what they do to the body also programs the mind. The only way for her to break the cycle is to free herself completely from her family so that her children are safe. She may feel like a child; but the ones who are helpless are the ones in the bodies of children.
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You are so right. She is also totally isolated. All she has are the people who got her into this mess. Also, the fear of Hell no doubt paralyses her.
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Well said, Linda. It seems that now her own family is trying to “rid their family of this pig”, and coming to her support. We’ll see what evolves. There is a lot of conditioning to reverse !! How awful for her to be dealing with all this in the public eye.
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Is anyone besides her brother trying to help. I expect him to repent and become a televangelist. Seriously. It will be so hard for a person who is scared to death of going to hell and taking her children with her to get out of this.
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She’s already in hell, I’d say.
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I feel for her. Her parents wronged her e ncuraginging that marriage.
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I don’t really know her story…were the Duggars already famous when they got together ? If so…shame on her parents for their motivation.
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Yes. Her parents encouraged marriages knowing truth.
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Selling her out for fame…shameful. They’re not really that much different than the Kardashians, except for the self-righteousness. and maybe the preaching !
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That was so rotten
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You are wise, Auntie Linda. xxx
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I really feel for this young woman. She is isolated and ill-prepared for life.
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Well, H*ll, you’re making way too much sense here. We’re talking about believers, notorious for not making a lot of sense. Most of them want to protect the rapists, paedophiles, and thieves rather than punish them. Well, that is if they are truly sorry. They never stop to make sure that they really are sorry, no they just want to love the sinner and hate the sin because we’re all born sinners. We all make mistakes. People aren’t really responsible for what satan tricks them into doing… well, not if they see the light and are sorry for their sins. They all believe anyone is worth forgiving 70 times 7 … except the non-believers. No, those non-believers have to go to hell. I’d rather be in hell with honest people who know how to have a good time than liars, thieves, rapists, and paedophiles who know how to lie their way out of justice.
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Well, who would you talk to if you went to Heaven, anyway?
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Me? I’d die of shock if I found myself there LOLOLOLOLOL
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But wait, if you were there, you’d already be dead. Are you telling me you’re going to be born again? Do you know what you’re saying?
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ohhhh grrrrrrrrr The irony of it all
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Gotcha!
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prayers help to be strong to help anyone in this position. It is not easy to go against your family.
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I agree. She needs to look out for her children.
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