Kathryn Kuhlman

== Personal life ==
Burroughs Waltrip was a Texas evangelist. He divorced his first wife, left his family, moved to [[Mason City, Iowa]], and started a revival center called Radio Chapel, for which Kuhlman and her pianist friend, Helen Gulliford, helped him raise funds.<ref name="Believers' Portal" />

After a romance between Waltrip and Kuhlman began, she told her friends that she could not "find the will of God in the matter", seemingly feeling guilt-ridden. Kuhlman's friends tried to encourage her to not marry Waltrip. However, she reasoned that Waltrip's wife had left him, not the other way around. (The details of their separation are not clear.)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-12-24 |title=Kathryn Kuhlman - "The Woman Who Believed in Miracles" |url=https://africachurches.com/kathryn-kuhlman-the-woman-who-believed-in-miracles/ |access-date=2022-12-31 |website=AfricaChurches.com News Portal |language=en-GB}}</ref> On October 18, 1938, she secretly married "Mister," as she called him, in Mason City, but the wedding supposedly brought her no peace.<ref name="EerdWord">{{cite news |last=Artman |first=Amy |date=March 29, 2019 |title=Turning Points in the Life of Kathryn Kuhlman |publisher=[[Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.]] |url=http://eerdword.com/2019/03/29/turning-points-in-the-life-of-kathryn-kuhlman/ |access-date=May 9, 2019}}</ref> The couple had no children and eventually separated in 1944, divorcing in 1948.

Regarding her marriage, in a 1952 interview with the ''Denver Post'', Kuhlman stated, "He charged—correctly—that I refused to live with him. And I haven't seen him in eight years."{{sfn|Buckingham|1976}}  On many occasions, Kuhlman expressed remorse for her part in the pain caused by the breakup of Waltrip's previous marriage, citing his children's heartbreak as particularly troubling to her. She claimed it was the single greatest regret of her life, second only to the betrayal of her loving relationship with Jesus.{{sfn|Buckingham|1976}}