Francis MacNutt opens by praying with couples for healing in their marriages. He describes a husband whose family taught him to hide grief, and a wife who read his silence after their child’s death as not caring. He then turns the talk over to Barbara, who recalls the six years early in her own marriage when he withdrew to the basement and she went silent. Anger in marriages across the movement, she teaches, is almost always a reaction to hurt that needs to be found and healed.
