You have no idea what I look like in person. Just because Mr Mooney Looney warped some picture of me in an avatar doesn't mean I'm ugly. It just shows how your brain works -- assumptions and huge illogical gaps in your thinking.
I'm secure in my looks. And secure in the relationship that Marshall thinks I'm attractive. He told me before that he believes he and I are physically compatible because we are the same level of attractiveness. Tells me I'm pretty and beautiful all the time.
Marshall doesn't think like pagan men. He doesn't believe in tossing women who have given birth to the side for a barren woman. That's the way of pagans, not the way of YHWH and righteous men. In Hebraic culture children are not "baggage" they are "blessings". You just don't know the ways of YHWH
I've been in public and other women have tried to seduce Marshall for glances, even in front of me, and he just looks the other way. He's turned down invitations from co-workers to go to strip clubs on trips. Pagan women are like that, always trying to compete with other women for a man's attention (another manifestation of internalized misogyny). Many pagan women in my experience often also think they are better if they are younger or have less children so they try to get men to lust after them in front of their wives. Complete opposite of a Hebraic mentality. Based on the many conversations I've had with Marshall, he doesn't think like a pagan. Praise YaH
Marshall also has the capacity to love, which will hold us together. He also is one of those rare men that loves a woman from the inside out. He is attracted to things like wisdom, verbal intelligence, and sexy factor (good personality). There may be women prettier than me, but I got the "sexy factor" ladies

, so I don't feel threatened by any of these predictions you make!
Your statements about rape are illogical. Clearly if I don't believe it is a sin then it wouldn't come "home to roost" because it doesn't bother me. I don't get into power struggles with my husband. That is one reason I can carry a relationship. Pick your battles wisely.
Your statements about him potentially assaulting me are illogical too. Obviously if The Torah says he is required to heal any injury he causes me, it all works out okay in the end. Why would he cause an injury that he will have to then turn around and heal? Eventually the brain figures it out.
See, this is where you have a huge disconnect in your brain. You want to condemn a man (Marshall) for causing an injury to another human being. I don't know anyone
ever who has
never caused an injury to another person
when fighting. Please, by all means, if you have ever met someone who has never caused an injury to another person when fighting (verbal, mental or physical), let me meet them. I'd like to interview them.
My willingness to judge my husband properly for an action he did in his past (physical striking), and anything that comes up in my relationship is why I'm able to carry a relationship. I don't fly off the handle and call the cops because of human fighting. It's absurd and unrighteous to treat a man like a villain for an action that is not worthy of condemnation or excommunication in The Torah.
This is
not being a DV apologist. This is being an advocate of
healing and peacemaking. If the person who strikes is required to
heal the other person then clearly I am advocating for being a peacemaker in a relationship, not sending a man to jail for something that could be remedied with healing and peacemaking.
My willingness to be a peacemaker under the rules of The Torah is what will hold my relationship with Marshall together
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will called the children of Elohim" (Matthew 5:9)
I'm not too concerned if I change anyone's mind what they think about me. But I do think I have a right to speak for myself.
Each person carries their own worldview and religion and that is the lens by which they judge all things and all people. All worldviews and religions do not agree on the definitions of "good" and "evil", so there will ultimately be a disconnect. But like I said before, I learn about myself and become a better writer through debating and that is beneficial.
By "attacking" I mean the social abuse this site has inflicted to some degree. It moved off the internet into our neighborhood and the things we dealt with were very crazy. Several people have looked me up and commented about finding me on this site. The reactions have not all been negative, but more scapegoating and social abuse has occurred. Pagan Americans (USA) have a thing for scapegoating. Once one person starts, lots of people join in (sickness). Mostly to deflect the potential threat of being scapegoated themself, in my POV. Many people are quick to attack but slow to think that they aren't so perfect themself.
As a person who likes a lot of privacy I also felt attacked by my personal life being blasted for an international audience. Not because I am embarrassed by anything in my personal life, just that I tend to be shy and reserved by nature. I like to be in the shadows of society, not a public figure. Normally you share personal details about your life with whomever you choose. For example, my father's suicide was a secret I was going to take to my grave. I told Marshall and he the only person I have ever offered that information too. I don't tell anybody about that because of the stigma attached to it. Then The Stalker had to tell everyone online so I felt I had to correct the situation by having the change to speak for myself.
I don't talk to Elohim directly (and I don't know anyone in this generation who does!, but if anyone claims to, I'd sure like to meet them). My scholarship is an endeavor based on my own human effort.
I believe Elohim when They said you need The Torah to define right and wrong. Outside of that, there is no more definition of right and wrong. There is only opinion, preference and cultural norms.
I mentioned before on this thread that a spouse should not injure a spouse if there is rape in the situation. I tried finding the comment number but can't, so the situation you describe in which someone is ill and needs healing, then it would be clearly wrong to injure the person by forced sex.
Outside of that, I just don't see there being an issue with forced sex if it doesn't cause an injury. I don't see there being absolute bodily autonomy in marriage. Sex is a marital right, so it is an obligation of the other spouse to give it. In essence, one spouse has rights to the other spouse's body. This helps also form the moral principle that a spouse cannot have sex with others outside of the marriage because their body belongs to their spouse, not anyone else.
So, if you reason that rape is wrong based on bodily autonomy, then the inverse would be true too: withholding sex is then allowed. And that circles back to the marital rights issue. It can't be true then that there is absolute bodily autonomy in marriage because saying so would mean that you can deny your spouse his or her marital
rights. And with that, I can't agree.
I'm puzzled by your statement that being raped by a spouse would cause injured feelings. I see the root of that as the perception that being dominated by a spouse (temporarily) makes a woman feel unsafe, rather than an actual emotional injury. Is it possible that by being raped by her spouse, a woman could actually feel
more safe? The gesture is symbolic of his desire to dominate and desire
toward her. Resisting rape is telling him that you don't want his dominance, but allowing the behavior communicates that she accepts his dominance at times. This can register in both of their minds as security in the relationship. His dominance makes him a protector, her accepting it shows him her fidelity toward him. (Not saying females can't dominate their spouse either, just that the psyscoligcal information communicated is different).
Why would it injure a woman's feelings?
When my children marry, they can decide with their spouse how they feel about these issues. Every marriage has to build itself.
But I do not believe The Torah says spousal rape is a sin, nor is striking worthy of condemnation, that's what I would teach them.