how to identify them. This article seeks to help you with that. To start, I describe these marriages using the biblical term: oppression. Using this term for these coercive relationship patterns adds clarity. It helps us locate places in Scripture that speak into what we are observing. Then, to help you to recognize these patterns in marriages, I will provide questions and evaluative tools that will help you reveal power imbalances and identify an oppressor. Finally, I will sketch out initial steps