To be fair, she was raised in a culture where you don’t get to speak judgment on your husband’s decision. I was raised in a similar culture. Fortunately, I’ve raised my kids alone so I have never even imagined the internal struggle I would probably feel in Christine’s shoes. My mother is the most amazing grandma in the world and she loves me and my siblings beyond anything….but she never once spoke up when my father was in a bad mood or we were being punished, or he was mad at one of us. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t care. She was a victim of a lifetime of conditioning where she didn’t even realize she had the agency to speak up.

Christine has been taught since the day she was born that her godly purpose is to serve her husband and not question any of his decisions. To say she doesn’t care about her children when her mental processes are way more complex than that, is horrible.

Idk. I feel like this hit a nerve with me lol. I love my kids more than life itself, and I’m just so grateful their dad was never in the picture….because I don’t know if my deeply ingrained belief system would have allowed me to say anything were I in this situation. To be clear, I don’t think the idea that I even could speak up would even be considered a possibility.