0 stars. I re-read this book for research purposes and had to force myself to finish it.

This is what I learned from it as I read: the men in this woman’s family / religious cult are abusive (I would never feel safe around any of them), and the women have so much deeply internalized misogyny that they work alongside the men to create their own doctrines, twist scriptures past recognition, and export their teachings so they can all continue to normalize the objectification of women and uphold a culture of abuse of women and children together. They train up their sons to be predators who only see women as sex objects. All whilst trying to spiritualize their abuse and blaming women for every sin men commit. My husband found it debased and appalling as well.

It would be better marketed as a textbook on gaslighting, as the author and her husband gaslight the reader all the way through it. It’s full of heresy.

I find it terrifying that they have translated this book into other languages and sent it off into other parts of the world.

I am 100% against burning books, but if I weren’t, this would be the first one I’d throw on the pile.

Worst book I have ever read. ( )

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Dangerous doctrine!! ( )

"It is better your husband does it poorly, than for you to do it." Ah yes, on top of being so mad at your husband you throw rocks at him, being a wife who does nothing because men are the alpha in the house. If I ever saw someone treating their wife like this -and these books are meant to be used in present day- I would likely call the police or tell the wife she needs to rethink her choices.

This book is horrendous. I can't tell if Debi was coerced into writing this for profit or if she was also as brainwashed as her husband wants her to be, but this book is disgusting. ( )

"It is better your husband does it poorly, than for you to do it." Ah yes, on top of being so mad at your husband you throw rocks at him, being a wife who does nothing because men are the alpha in the house. If I ever saw someone treating their wife like this -and these books are meant to be used in present day- I would likely call the police or tell the wife she needs to rethink her choices.

This book is horrendous. I can't tell if Debi was coerced into writing this for profit or if she was also as brainwashed as her husband wants her to be, but this book is disgusting. ( )