How I escaped ‘trad wife’ hell: Abuse survivor hopes other victims find her book and run

Tia Levings entered a fundamental Christian marriage at just 19, and as she looked after the children, her husband chose more rural and more authoritarian congregations for the family. She fled the marriage in 2007 before chronicling her story in a new book – which warns of behind-the-scenes evils hidden within the ‘trad wife’ trend. Sheila Flynn reports