Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago
Part 1: Today's interview is with Karen, an amazing woman of faith who stayed with her abusive husband more than 40 years before she finally left him—and his murderous rages—behind. What does it take to start a new life in your late 60s? How do you grab life with both hands? How do you find happiness again?
You’ll hear her tell her story, from her loving upbringing and happily married parents, to her marriage to a man who tormented and manipulated her with false accusations, suicide threats, stalking, road rage, and worse. Discover how her relationship with the Lord — and a wise pastor and counselor — gave her strength to leave.
In Part 2, we talk about forgiveness, singleness, self-respect, financial fears, and how her health problems (arthritis and psoriatic psoriasis) have almost completely gone away. We also discuss the legal process, going "no contact," her faith in God, how she finally escaped, and her advice for others in long abusive marriages. "My life is stress free and happy. Divorcing him was the best thing I ever did."
"When people hear that I'm divorced and say they are sorry, I reply, 'I'm not! I'm free of that turmoil.'"
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ABOUT
Hello, I’m Gretchen Baskerville, the author of the Life-Saving Divorce: Hope for People Leaving Destructive Relationships. I’ve been a Christian divorce recovery leader in churches since 1998.
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What's a Life-Saving Divorce? A Life-Saving Divorce is a divorce for the serious reasons: a pattern of chronic emotional abuse, infidelity, domestic violence, sexual immorality, felony behavior, neglect, substance abuse, etc.
How to Get the Book, "The Life-Saving Divorce: Hope for People Leaving Destructive Relationships"
Paperback Book/Kindle via Amazon: amzn.to/3CCBsnr As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Follow Gretchen Baskerville:
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Twitter: twitter.com/GGBaskerville
Instagram: instagram.com/gretchenbaskerville
Other helpful links
Website and Blog: LifeSavingDivorce.com
Divorce Story Interviews: LifeSavingDivorce.com/interviews
Life-Saving Divorce Email Signup: LifeSavingDivorce.com/courage
Part 1: Today's interview is with Karen, an amazing woman of faith who stayed with her abusive husband more than 40 years before she finally left him—and his murderous rages—behind. What does it take to start a new life in your late 60s? How do you grab life with both hands? How do you find happiness again?
You’ll hear her tell her story, from her loving upbringing and happily married parents, to her marriage to a man who tormented and manipulated her with false accusations, suicide threats, stalking, road rage, and worse. Discover how her relationship with the Lord — and a wise pastor and counselor — gave her strength to leave.
In Part 2, we talk about forgiveness, singleness, self-respect, financial fears, and how her health problems (arthritis and psoriatic psoriasis) have almost completely gone away. We also discuss the legal process, going "no contact," her faith in God, how she finally escaped, and her advice for others in long abusive marriages. "My life is stress free and happy. Divorcing him was the best thing I ever did."
"When people hear that I'm divorced and say they are sorry, I reply, 'I'm not! I'm free of that turmoil.'"
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ABOUT
Hello, I’m Gretchen Baskerville, the author of the Life-Saving Divorce: Hope for People Leaving Destructive Relationships. I’ve been a Christian divorce recovery leader in churches since 1998.
Subscribe: youtube.com/channel/UCRgtUNfTlYIRDt8iOK6XPKQ
What's a Life-Saving Divorce? A Life-Saving Divorce is a divorce for the serious reasons: a pattern of chronic emotional abuse, infidelity, domestic violence, sexual immorality, felony behavior, neglect, substance abuse, etc.
How to Get the Book, "The Life-Saving Divorce: Hope for People Leaving Destructive Relationships"
Paperback Book/Kindle via Amazon: amzn.to/3CCBsnr As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Follow Gretchen Baskerville:
Facebook: facebook.com/gretchen.baskerville
Twitter: twitter.com/GGBaskerville
Instagram: instagram.com/gretchenbaskerville
Other helpful links
Website and Blog: LifeSavingDivorce.com
Divorce Story Interviews: LifeSavingDivorce.com/interviews
Life-Saving Divorce Email Signup: LifeSavingDivorce.com/courage
![Evangelicals Shooting Their Own Wounded Divorcees [UPDATED] | The Life-Saving Divorce](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r1HVYOi4Jjs/mqdefault.jpg "Evangelicals Shooting Their Own Wounded Divorcees [UPDATED] | The Life-Saving Divorce
As a Christian divorce recovery leader for the past 20 years, I want our churches to be safe place for divorcees, yet often the opposite happens. Divorced Christians, even godly spouses, are judged and treated like quitters who took the easy way out. says Gretchen Baskerville, author of The Life-Saving Divorce.
How many divorced Evangelicals have stopped attending our churches, even though they love the Lord?
See the new data, released in February 2020, in the Christianity Today article, Despite Stigma, More Divorced Evangelicals Are Going to Church, that show that Evangelical churches are not doing a good job. Sure, a large number of divorced Evangelicals attend church frequently. But not nearly the number we would expect.
Gretchen walks you through the graphs, and gives reasons, examples, and explanations for why this is happening...why we are missing perhaps 1 million Evangelical divorcees. At the end she gives tips to pastors and leaders on how to turn this around.
About:
Gretchen Baskerville has been a Christian divorce recovery leader since 1998. Shes listened to women and men going through heartbreaking life-saving divorces. She gives them hope and faith in a God who loves them and their children—and walks beside them to restore the years the locust ate. Shes the author of The Life-Saving Divorce: Hope for People Leaving Destructive Relationships.
What is a Life-Saving Divorce? Nearly half of divorces in the U.S. are for very serious reasons: infidelity, sexual immorality, domestic violence, verbal/emotional abuse, or addictions. These are the Life-Saving Divorces. Many of these divorcees prayed, fasted, tried harder, went to counseling, bought Christian marriage books, forgave 70 times 7, turned the other cheek, and walked the extra mile again and again. As my friend Gina Kaye says, They didnt WANT a divorce, they NEEDED a divorce... to save their life and sanity.
Find out more at http://www.lifesavingdivorce.com/
How to Get the book, The Life-Saving Divorce: Hope for People Leaving Destructive Relationships
Paperback Book/Kindle via Amazon: https://amzn.to/3CCBsnr As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Follow Gretchen Baskerville:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gretchen.baskerville
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GGBaskerville
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gretchenbaskerville/
Other helpful links:
Website and Blog: http://www.LifeSavingDivorce.com
Divorce Story Interviews: http://www.LifeSavingDivorce.com/interviews
Life-Saving Divorce Email Signup: http://www.LifeSavingDivorce.com/courage")
