Relationships that Survived Purity Culture

Relationships That Survived Purity Culture is a four-week relational storytelling experience designed for couples who are navigating life beyond Purity Culture, Evangelicalism, Mormonism, or Pentecostalism.

Each week, you and your partner will reflect on a different part of your journey—together. With guidance from Julia Postema and Jeremiah Gibson, you’ll recount how your relationship was shaped by high-control religion and reimagine how you want to move forward.

This isn’t therapy or coaching. It’s a chance to tell your story out loud and be witnessed—by facilitators who understand what you’ve been through.

FAQs

  • This experience is for you if:

    • One or both of you grew up in conservative or high-control religious communities

    • You’ve experienced the emotional, sexual, and relational toll of rigid gender and purity messages

    • You’re in the middle of—or have completed—a faith deconstruction

    • You want space to grieve, reflect, and make meaning of what you’ve been through

    • You’re still together, but you’ve never had a chance to fully tell your story

  • Over four 85-minute sessions, you’ll explore:

    Session 1

    • Messages you learned about sexuality

    • Your early relationship history

    Session 2

    • Your bonding period

    • How you began solving problems together

    Session 3

    • The individuation process

    • How your relationship responded to deconstruction

    Session 4

    • What changed and what stayed the same

    • New agreements and ways of relating post-deconstruction

    You’ll be guided through these conversations using a semi-structured interview format. We ask the same core questions to each couple but follow your story wherever it leads.

  • You can choose to work with Jeremiah, Julia, or both:

    • $1000 — with Jeremiah or Julia

    • $1600 — with Jeremiah and Julia

    • $250 discount for the first 30 couples who opt into our qualitative research project