Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery, BTR.org. I'm Anne. I'm sure you remember what it was like when you were searching for help, maybe for your husband, hoping to find the right program or therapist. That's why I started podcasting. I supported my husband through seven years of pornography addiction recovery and not one therapist during that time

told me I was experiencing emotional and psychological abuse and sexual coercion.

I didn't want any other woman on the planet to be in the dark.

If you're like the majority of my listeners, you're experiencing the type of abuse that's

invisible and difficult to wrap your head around. Your husband is using porn or

having affairs or lying to you and you're getting the same bad advice about how

to improve communication or your relationship.

If you need support from women who totally understand, check out our daily group session schedule

at BTR.org slash group.

We'd love to see you in a session today.

One simple anonymous way to help spread the word

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Podcast on your favorite podcasting app.

While you're there, every five-star rating helps make this podcast more visible

and will help save other women from getting the wrong kind of help,

like a couple program that will make this type of abuse worse.

For those of you who follow or subscribe to this podcast, thank you so much.

Your support means so much to me.

A member of our community Sandy is on today's episode. Not her real name, she's using an

alias because she's going to be talking about how she experienced sexual abuse. The perpetrator

was her husband. We won't go into details.

Welcome Sandy. Why don't you just go ahead and start where you want to start?

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