Week 6: Chapter 5 — Men, Men, Men

1.Beth argues that a significant source of women's insecurity is the way they have allowed the men in their lives — fathers, husbands, boyfriends, even absent men — to define their worth. Does that resonate with your experience? How has a man's voice (positive or negative) shaped your sense of self?

2.She is compassionate but direct about the pain caused by emotionally unavailable or critical fathers, and how that wound tends to follow women into adulthood and into their relationship with God. Without oversharing, can you identify any "father wounds" that still affect how you see yourself or how you relate to God?

3.Beth addresses the woman who has tied her security to a husband or romantic partner — and the terrifying fragility that creates, because any human anchor can be lost. In what ways do you find yourself looking to a man for security that only God can provide?