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. It's just me today. I'm going to be

talking about therapeutic disclosures. When you discover that your husband is lying, that he's been using

pornography or having affairs, or that he's been soliciting prostitutes, someone might tell you,

or you may think that he's a sex addict. And if you go to sex addiction therapy, there's a high

likelihood that a certified sexual addiction therapy, there's a high likelihood that a certified sexual

addiction therapist, which is a CSAT or the addiction therapist, will have him do a therapeutic

disclosure. So we're going to be talking about why I think therapeutic disclosures are very dangerous.

And then you get to decide what you want to do after listening to what I have to say. So first of all, what is a therapeutic

disclosure? A therapeutic disclosure is a process that involves the sex addict disclosing their

full sexual history to his wife in a quote-unquote so-called structured way with the guidance of

a therapist. In theory, the purpose of a therapeutic disclosure is to provide the betrayed wife

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