31-You Are Not Alone: A Story About Abuse with Karen

Delight Your Marriage

Belah Rose

Sexuality, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Christianity

4.7 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Hi there! Belah here. Today, I have with me Karen, a DYM listener who bravely shares her heartbreaking---yet very enlightening---story. She talks about her own struggles with anxiety and depression and thoughts of taking her own life due to abusive experiences from childhood. She shares about the more recent issues of sexual abuse that has ravaged her family. Not only did these affect her individually, but they have also taken a toll on her marriage. She tells about how the frustration and emotional torment affected the intimacy in her marriage. Listen as Karen takes us deep into how common sexual abuse is and how victims have been silent under a blanket of shame. Karen urges everyone to keep an seek help from trustworthy people who can help and support you.

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0:00.0	Delight Your Marriage, Episode 31.
0:03.9	Welcome to the Delight Your Marriage podcast, the show where you hear from amazing and
0:09.3	inspiring wives sharing their struggles, triumphs, and advice for this journey called marriage.
0:15.7	Here's your host, Bella Rose.
0:20.4	Hi there, this is Bella, and I want to thank you for joining me today.
0:24.5	If you have never heard the Delight Your Marriage podcast, I want to welcome you today.
0:29.7	And I've got a really sad but very common truth is that abuse happens.
0:38.4	And as sad as it is, it happens a lot and it happens a lot to children.
0:43.9	And I think all of us can think back to our childhood.
0:46.9	And, you know, there are just things that should have happened that didn't and should not have
0:52.5	happened that did.
0:53.5	And, you know, maybe,
0:55.4	maybe you didn't have that heart of a childhood, but maybe you were, you perceive things in the
1:00.1	wrong way that, you know, spoke something to your heart in the way, especially of sex. A lot of
1:05.5	times we don't hear about sex when we're growing up and then we think certain things that are
1:10.8	just totally false or our, you know we think certain things that are just totally false
1:12.0	or our parents do things that are actually bad like a lot of fathers think it's appropriate to
1:19.2	introduce their sons to pornography as sad as that is and I mean there's just so many kinds of
1:24.6	issues like that and I think the worst part of it is we don't talk about it.
1:29.9	That's the worst because we think that we're the only one struggling with this debilitating
1:35.6	fear or anxiety or concern. And I mean, that's what this whole project is all about,
1:42.2	is bringing those concerns into the light
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