A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy BY Tia Levings

In A Well-Trained Wife, Tia Levings delivers a powerful memoir that sheds light on the hidden abuses within the Quiverfull movement and Christian Patriarchy.

Recruited into the Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings embraced a life governed by a stringent set of rules designed to ensure her compliance with fundamentalist Christian principles. In this world, being a good wife meant upholding ideals of submission and isolation, adhering to a life that seemed outwardly virtuous but was fraught with hidden pain. Within this rigid framework, women were expected to be silent and devoted, confined to a role that masked deep-seated abuses.

As years of hardship and emotional turmoil accumulated, Tia became increasingly aware that the idyllic facade of her life belied the harsh reality of her situation. Isolated from the outside world and wary of exposing her family’s secretive lifestyle to authorities or outsiders, Tia endured in silence. Yet, as she witnessed the cycle of abuse and control extend to her children, she realized that her role as a mother compelled her to protect them from becoming entangled in the same patriarchal values.

Faced with the impossible choice of remaining in a suffocating environment or escaping to safeguard her family, Tia’s journey is both harrowing and courageous. Through an honest and evocative narrative, A Well-Trained Wife chronicles Tia’s struggle to break free from an oppressive system and her quest for autonomy and safety. This memoir offers a poignant exploration of the impact of extreme ideologies on marriage and motherhood.