I had heard a lot about the Disney movie Tangled, but hadn’t seen it until recently.  After watching it, I just sat there for a few minutes taking it all in.  There was SO much in there that I could relate to from my experience with the patriarchal movement and also a spiritually abusive church.  There are few movies that so completely resonate with me like that.  I’ve wanted to write about it for some time but then this morning I read an article by John at Recovering Grace that describes many of the things I had seen.   In it he talks about the analogies he found in the movie regarding misplaced authority, fear-based protection, the emotional trauma initially experienced by those who break free, the need they experience of a guide afterwards, and most of all our ever-patient heavenly Father.  So rather than write the same things here I am simply going to point you to his very well-written article.  You can go HERE to read it.