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

is to click, follow, or subscribe to the Betrayal Trauma Recovery

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.

I have my friend with me today, Lindsay, not her real name, and she's actually here in my

basement where I record. I was talking to a woman at a conference and she said I wasn't meant to live one day at a time and I thought that's so true like I want to be able to

plan I want to be able to have peace I want to be able to have emotional safety.

There are obviously painful things that happen no matter how hard we try, we can't avoid

them.

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