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. It's just me today. Even though

this podcast is interfaith and interparadime, many of you who listen are Christian. If you are not Christian,

this episode will still help you and these principles will apply. Yes, it is what Jesus said about

abuse, but it's also one of the strategies from the Living Free Workshop, and I'm going to go into

detail about it. In the Living Free Workshop, and I'm going to go into detail about it. In the Living

Free Workshop, it is all secular. It's just the strategies themselves without any background

information in terms of how I discovered it. So what does Jesus say about abuse? We're going to look at

some scriptures that abusers have used to spiritually

abuse victims so that they can exploit them. The first one is Matthew 525. It's part of the

sermon on the mount. And Jesus says, agree with thine adversary quickly, whilst thou art in the

way with him, lest at any time the adversary deliver thee unto

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