Wife Material

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wife Material</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> tells a story of religious abuse and sexual repression in the modern Church of Christ denomination an American sect that forbids women speaking in services. Elizabeth Campbell's parents are violinists. Her father seems gay. Their church disallows musical instruments </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> homosexuality. Elizabeth succumbs to the twisted violence in her family and the pressure for early marriage at conservative Waltham University the flagship Church-of-Christ college where suicides abound. Then she escapes fundamentalism through a series of liberating sins. Written by a psychologist and former fundamentalist </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wife Material </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>explores themes of emotional repression child maltreatment and the spiritual abuse that dominate many denominational cultures. The book also highlights a path to creative freedom through love that is discovered not required.</span></p>