The tactics used by an oppressive spouse can vary. They can be behaviors that prevent personal freedoms, induce fear, exploit, terrorize, humiliate, withhold resources, isolate, threaten, demand obedience or physically harm. Living under such evils harms the oppressed person’s emotional, spiritual, physical, sexual, relational, and economic wellbeing. Prior to meeting Ashley and Clint I was unaware that patterns of oppression occur in one quarter of all marriages.2 Since I did not know how prevalent