It took me many years, but I started to sell life insurance without my husband knowing about it. How do I leave? So I thought, okay what is the one thing you can do without a degree? You can sell. "But I had no education, I had no way to support myself. "Marriage was prison, I hated being married," Haart told My Unorthodox Life. She started to plan her escape in secret. She worked as a Judaic Studies teacher, but as she got older, she grew more and more uncomfortable with the life she was living. At 19, she married her first husband, Yosef Hendler, in an arranged marriage and they had four children. Haart moved to Monsey, a major centre of Orthodox Judaism, when she was 11. While a man could divorce his wife for something as small as burning dinner, she could never leave him, even if the marriage was violent.Īs we learn from Batsheva, Haart's eldest daughter, sex is such an unspoken topic that even when she was preparing to marry aged 19, "my bridal teacher wouldn't even say the word sex. It was her purpose, as a woman, to follow her husband and be a baby making machine. And then the next morning it would start all over again for thousands of years, or however many years hell lasts," she explained. "In this hell, your mother would dip your clothes in acid and put them on your body, so throughout the day your body would decompose from the acid. She recalls being taught from a young age that if any of her body was uncovered in public, she would go to a "special kind of hell" reserved for just her and her mother.
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