Ginny Tate
I am so thankful to be able to sit down with my friend Ginny Tate! As I mentioned in the intro, this episode is a really tough one! I think it is an important topic to discuss, even if it is hard. I am blessed to know Ginny and to have witnessed the road she walked over the last couple of years! Ginny experienced Intimate Partner Violence in her marriage, and that is what we discuss today. Praise God for women like her who tell their story!Currently, one in three women worldwide experiences IPV, which is a global health concern (Napier et al., 2023).According to the World Health Organization (WHO), VAW is a pervasive problem that “negatively affects women’s physical, mental, sexual, and reproductive health” (WHO, 2024).IPV is defined as “any violence that occurs within a relational context with a romantic partner, whether that partner is current or from a past relationship” (Kelly et al., 2022, p. 147), including “physical, emotional, psychological abuse” (Kelly et al., 2022, p. 147) and “sexual coercion” (Napier et al., 2023, p. 323). Physical abuse can be briefly defined as acts of physical hostility, which can include hitting, kicking, throwing, or any other form of physical coercion, with the possibility of causing harm to the individual (Mulat et al., 2022). Psychological or emotional abuse, which is often the most common form of IPV, involves emotional manipulations, including subtle put-downs, gaslighting, and other means to control a current or former partner (Daw et al., 2023). Sexual coercion or sexual assault are the undesired sexual advances, including touching, or expressions of desire that can occur at varying degrees, consistency, or invasiveness from either a stranger, current, or former partner (Foubert et al., 2021).
