To Every Woman Who Wore White

<h2><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The wedding day. Dreams promises and a hopeful gaze toward forever.</strong></h2><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You wore white believing this love would endure all things. But what happens when the man you married isn't the man you're living with? When the church that blessed your union protects your abuser? When till death do us part begins to feel like a death sentence?</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>To Every Woman Who Wore White</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> tells the stories of five Christian women whose marriages looked nothing like they promised: </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Catherine</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> trapped in emotional abuse while her pastor defends her husband. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Emma</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> discovering affairs while her Bible study blames her. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sarah</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> abandoned while pregnant pressured to reconcile. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jennifer</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> married to an alcoholic told her tone drives him to drink. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Rebecca</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> learning through infertility that God's plans look nothing like our dreams.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>These are the stories women whisper in church parking lots and carry silently through Sunday services-afraid to speak the truth about marriages breaking them and churches failing them.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Here's what nobody tells you on your wedding day:</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Sometimes the most faithful thing you can do is leave. Sometimes loving yourself is the most biblical choice. Sometimes God grieves with you over what was supposed to be forever. And sometimes the church wounds you deeper than your husband ever did.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book is for the woman with bruises hidden beneath long sleeves. For the single mother raising children alone. For the wife who stayed too long. For the woman labeled a Jezebel for protecting herself and her children.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You'll discover</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> how to distinguish God's voice from voices claiming to speak for Him why submission to abuse is never God's plan practical resources for crisis and permission to grieve while hoping for what's ahead.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Written by </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kimberly Bishop </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>she brings both the hope of wedding days and hard-won wisdom of broken ones. As a psychology professor and Christian author she writes with warmth honesty and unflinching faith-holding space for covenant marriage and the necessity of leaving when love becomes harm.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This isn't about giving up on marriage. It's about refusing to give up on yourself your children and the God who never meant for love to look like death.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If you've wondered: </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Am I crazy or is this abuse? Why does my church protect him? Does God hate me for leaving?</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-this book is your answer and permission to trust that </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>God stands with the oppressed not the oppressor-even when the oppressor quotes Scripture.</strong></p><p></p>