When home is not safeStep 1 of 8

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Lesson 4 of 6

What gets said to you

Be patient. This is your test. Paradise is under his feet, or some rearrangement of a phrase that was never about this. Do not air the family's business. Think of the children. Every marriage is hard. Pray more.

Some of the people who say these things love you. That is what makes them so heavy. They are not trying to keep you in danger, they are trying to hold a family together, and they have no idea what they are holding it together around.

This lesson is about what those sentences actually rest on, which turns out to be very little.

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