201 - What If My Struggling Spouse Doesn't Want Healing?

Pure Desire Podcast

Pure Desire Ministries

Sexual Addiction Recovery, Religion & Spirituality, Celebrate Recovery, Sexuality, Porn Recovery, Porn Addiction Recovery, Health & Fitness, Aa, Education, Betrayal Trauma, Recovery, Biblical Recovery, Christian Recovery, Healing, Sa, Christianity, Self-improvement

4.6 • 682 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

For a marriage to truly heal from sexual addiction and betrayal trauma, both spouses need healing. We refer to it as a “family systems issue.” But what if our struggling spouse doesn’t want to pursue healing? Should we continue on our own healing journey? Can we help them? Should we even try to? We talk about this very difficult and very common situation on today’s episode.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Pure Desire Podcast.
0:04.0	You're safe place to find hope, healing, and freedom from sexual addiction, betrayal, and relationship issues.
0:14.4	What's up, people?
0:15.3	I'm your host, Trevor Windsor, and you're listening to Episode 201 of the Pure Desire Podcast.
0:19.3	Here joining me, as always always is my co-host,
0:21.1	Nick Stumbo. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, beautiful day in the neighborhood.
0:27.4	Won't you be, everybody now, won't you be my neighbor?
0:35.1	Grew up watching that show.
0:42.5	There was a season where I became a young adult and was like,
0:44.2	the show was really weird.
0:49.3	And then you get a little bit older and you're like, no, it had its role and function,
0:49.9	definitely.
0:52.9	And he was supposedly an incredible man.
0:54.0	Yeah. You know, just the song makes me want to like take off my jacket and put on a
0:58.4	sweater and take off my outside shoes and put on my inside shoes.
1:04.2	Just brings back, you know, warm, fuzzy feelings of my childhood.
1:08.1	Absolutely. Absolutely.
1:09.5	Well, today we had, I tried to think of a professional
1:14.3	transition from that, but I'll let you do that in a minute. Today, we had a first-time guest on the
1:21.1	podcast, Eileen Fagan. She's one of our clinicians, and she was great. She did a really, really good job. We were really thankful for our time
1:29.2	together. And we talked about the situation where a betrayed spouse is pursuing their own healing,
1:34.5	but their struggling spouse is not. Yeah, you know, one of the things that I feel like Mr.
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