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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 7:5 NIV

PP from up thread. This was what abusive ex used.

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And these:

Ephesians 5:22-33 NIV

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:4 NIV

The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife.

So abuser ex saw himself as head of the household and head of my body. Was obsessed with 'cleansing' me which to him was bizarre sex acts. Had twisted and warped ideas of satan talking to him and god too, telling him to do demented things. Its very easy for abusers to pick and choose from these verses to a create a narrative justifying their abuse. There are many christian men who use their sexuality and lust as a threat based on these verses. It's so f'ed up to me that these verses are actually things that people live by. I can't even begin to understand religious organizations that have gotten away with these mentalities for such a long time.[/quote]

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