In this article, Becky Larson examines the problem of a hyper-controlling husband who manages to camouflage his behavior from church and friends. How does the truth of Scripture relate to this type of situation? Larson offers counsel for friends, counselors, and church leaders as they intervene in situations where violence, threats, and demeaning words have placed the wife (and children) into a condition of slavery to a husband’s whim and will.