“But he didn’t hit me”: Living with a non-physical-battering sexual abuser

We both belonged to a fundamentalist church, which was patriarchal in its belief systems. I had been brought up in the church; my husband’s family had joined when Craig was a teenager. We first met in the UK at a youth study week organized and run by the church. At the time I was just 16 and he had just turned 26. I thought he was immature and paid little notice of him.