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"Marriage Is Not Consent" | Marital Rape and Healing
Content note: this episode includes a first-person account of sexual violence within a marriage, told without graphic detail, and a mention of not wanting to live.
Clair joins Tammy and Lori to share her story. She asked us to use a pseudonym and to keep her face off camera. They talk about consent, what the body knows before words do, and the myth that marriage means yes.
Violence is never acceptable. Each of us, men and women, gets to be responsible for our own healing. That's what this conversation is about, including the part where Tammy talks about women and men hurting each other…
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