At 21, Emily was sure that by getting married and having kids she would more or less wind up living happily ever after. However, her relationship replicated some of her core wounds around growing up in a coercive control environment, and where talks around money were taboo. Emily wanted to leave her marriage, but all she had to her name was her car. In this time, she went back to school and got a degree in Women & Gender studies and with the analysis of Bell Hooks and Angela Davis, and the iron will earned from free birthing her second baby, she was finally ready to leave her abuser. It was only in the divorce process that she realized the full extent of the financial and physical abuse she survived.
Emily began fundraising to help support other mothers fighting for freedom from abusive marriages. Now, she’s turned that into the Mama Wilder Nonprofit. Along the way, she fell in love again with a man who in the truest sense is a protector and provider. This time she may not have had the pure idealism she had in her youth, but she knew that she deserved a redemptive love story, birth, and postpartum. In this episode Emily speaks to the importance of women initiating potentially uncomfortable conversations around prenups, property ownership, and life insurance policies with their partners.
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