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The Betrayed, The Addicted, The Expert

#102: How Do You Move Forward If Your Partner Doesn't Acknowledge The Depths Of Your Pain?

The Betrayed, The Addicted, The Expert

Ashlynn Mitchell, Brannon Patrick, Coby Mitchell

Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Self-improvement

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Caller Question: "How do you move forward in your relationship when the SA tries to compare their addiction to your mental health struggles and make you equal perpetrators? I am so done and fed up with this relationship, but it is not feasible for me to be able to leave for probably a year or two. What am I supposed to do in the meantime?"

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0:00.0

How do you move forward if your partner doesn't acknowledge the depths of your

0:05.6

pain? Welcome to the Real Talk Recovery Podcast with the Therapy Brothers. We're

0:11.0

brothers, we're therapists, and we know recovery. Bring your stories, your

0:15.7

questions, your successes, with real recovery.

0:35.3

This is going to be a good one, Brandon. We've got an awesome guest ready to go with

0:39.5

us today. Before we do that, we're kind of getting into the realm now where we

0:44.3

finally set a date, and I don't know when we're going to announce it formally,

0:49.5

but we've been looking at putting together a women's retreat sometime in the

0:53.4

spring. Yeah, I mean, we had a meeting about it this morning, so that's probably

0:58.0

why it's on your mind, either, but we're looking at the end of March-ish. We'll

1:03.5

get you more information about it, get you a landing page website, get that

1:08.3

information out, so we're still kind of in its infancy in terms of getting

1:14.4

it together, marketing it, but glad you brought it up, Tyler, I hope that a lot of

1:18.9

women come to it. I'm pumped about it, I think it's going to be awesome, so yeah,

1:23.5

we'll have more more info to come here in the next episode or two, but yeah,

1:29.9

should we jump into this, Brandon? Yeah, let's dive right in. We got PJ with us

1:34.0

today. PJ, I'm glad you're here. If you just give us a little bit of background,

1:40.3

tell us what's going on with you, and then ask, ask whatever you need to ask. Sure.

1:46.6

So I'm PJ, and I grew up in a very abusive home. Both of my parents were

1:56.4

addicts, both drug addicts, but eventually my dad became an alcoholic because

2:02.4

he got fired from a job, but my dad was also a sex and porn addict, so I was

2:07.2

exposed to porn. Very, very young age, I mean three or four. You know, when I was

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