Just finished a book today, a real life story about a 16 year old marrying an old man 60 years of age. This incident took place in Ireland in the 1970s. Tragic how the father and husband treated her in torment. These stories make be feel very blessed to be in a generation or in the midst of people that still respects women, and women can voice up their own opinions more freely than those from the book.
Even the priest were wavered that cause the girl to give up faith instead of lean unto God. She couldn't trust people anymore after that incident. Father and husband was supposedly a protector treated her like a procession. She was terribly beating and ill treated by both her husband and father. Her mother could not do anything as she was also weak in her family and severely mistreated by her husband. Bruised all the time.Mentally and verbal abused as well. As I read along, I could feel the hatred and anguish that was within her, yet her hope to move on to survive was still there. To run away was her only hope that time.
Being caught in the middle of mix feelings when each terrible individual that made her life a misery, she did not receive any "sorry" from her dad. She did a lot of mistakes along the way though. I really do hope that she will come to know the Lord before she passed away. Such things happened to her, I salute that she was able to go through the hard knocks of life. I wouldn't be able to live up to that and I may had been killed along the way. In my mind right now is how could something so terrible happened to a young girl? sometimes things may look prestige on the outside as evil people wear a "good person" mask and walk around.
http://www.obrien.ie/sold-into-marriage
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