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You're listening to 3 in 30 takeaways for Mom's episode 68, healing from betrayal in your marriage.

Welcome to 3 in 30, a podcast for Mom's who want to create more meaning in motherhood.

Each 30 minute episode will feature 3 doable takeaways for you to try at home with your family this week.

I'm your host, Rachel Nielsen. Thank you so much for being here.

Today's episode is about an extremely sensitive, emotional, tender topic, but one that I think will be very important for many women to hear.

Today we are talking about betrayal and marriage and how to move forward and heal.

It's Valentine's month, so there's a lot of talk right now about soulmates and romantic love and the cute things partners are doing for each other.

But in the midst of that, there's often very real heartbreak playing out in families and they may be looking around at social media or even their friends circles and thinking,

are we the only ones who are struggling?

And I've watched dear friends go through the heartbreak of discovering that their spouse was having an affair or is addicted to pornography or that there's been a crime committed and that they might have to face gel time.

There's so many different situations, but one common denominator through all of those has been a sense of loneliness for my friends.

They expressed to me this feeling of isolation and feeling that they couldn't talk to anyone about this really hard thing going on in their life because of shame, because of protectiveness of their spouse, if it was their spouse who was having the issue, they didn't feel like it was their story to tell.

And also just their own pain kept them from sharing.

And so I hope that today's episode will help you know that if you are in this place, you are not alone.

My guest today is an incredibly brave, generous and beautiful woman who has been where you are.

Her name is Mika Perry. She's a mother, a blogger, and a podcaster and just an all around stellar human being.

Honestly, one of the most encouraging women I've ever known, she has gone out of her way to encourage me on my podcasting journey.

And I know that she'll offer encouragement to all of you listening today on this really important and tender topic.

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