(Shellie Here: This week, we're going to explore *personal responsibility* a bit and so I was thankful that one of the contributing bloggers was willing to share some of the red flags that she saw but ignored and now, years later, to say that her marriage is "challenging" is a bit of an understatement. When we see a red traffic light, it's telling us to *stop*, to not move forward and to...

If my pen name sounds a bit bitter, I suppose part of that is still some deep seated anger within my situation, while the other half is a true desire to nail it, so to speak, in its coffin.  I’m an ordinary gal who stumbled on the reality of why she had been “put away,” as the bible puts it, by her husband.   This 40-year-old woman has been put away since she was 29.  I’m still put away.  Go...