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How Tia Levings Quit Being a ‘Well-Trained Wife’

By Allison McClain Merrill
The cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings. Book cover by St. Martin’s Press, graphic by Mitchell Atencio/Sojourners
Aug 19, 2024
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Tia Levings made a decision for herself and her children on October 28, 2007. With the help of a priest, she planned for an escape from her abusive husband. “I heard a voice say, ‘RUN,’” she writes in her memoir, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy.

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The cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings. Book cover by St. Martin’s Press, graphic by Mitchell Atencio/Sojourners