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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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 love hanging out with my good

friend Kate. And today we're talking about emotional battering, the invisible abuse that people need to understand.

Now, we get an emotional battering from our emotionally abusive husband.

Sometimes he says it with the most kind, loving voice.

That is so distressing.

And then sometimes people who either genuinely care about us or they're trying to

undermine us say things that feel like emotional battering when we're going through this. So we're actually

going to focus on that today. The emotional battering that we receive from friends or family or

church members or even neighbors, where either well-meaning

people say things that they don't realize how hurtful it is or they really are trying to undermine

us. To learn how to respond to emotional battering in strategic ways, enroll in the Living Free

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