This is a memoir about my life as a clerics wife and the abuse I lived through during those seventeen years of marriage. What is abuse? It seems a simple question, easily answered. If one asked one hundred people, their answers would probably all revolve around one primary thing. Violence. Physical violence. Possibly examples of broken bones, bruises, fear and death threats would be cited. Furthermore, I would automatically agree. However is it more than that? Can it also be a life of servitude and fear added to the mix? You read it. You decide. I lived it.