437 - Women's Voices: Recognizing Abuse in Marriage w/ Tabitha Westbrook

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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

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this eye-opening episode, we sit down with Tabitha Westbrook, an advocate and expert passionate about helping individuals recognize and address abuse within marriage. Tabitha unpacks the often-misunderstood signs of abuse—both obvious and subtle—and challenges the dangerous belief that “it’s not abuse unless it’s physical.” She sheds light on how emotional, verbal, and spiritual abuse can deeply impact relationships, and how these patterns often overlap with addiction, including sexual addiction. We also explore the complex dynamics that arise when both abuse and addiction are present and how the church and recovery communities can respond with wisdom, compassion, and safety. Whether you're a group leader, a recovery partner, or someone walking through a difficult marriage, this conversation offers clarity, courage, and hope. If you or someone you know may be in an unsafe relationship, this episode is a vital listen. You are not alone—and there is a path forward.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello there, good listener. I am your host, Nick Stumbo, and you are listening to
0:09.1	The Pure Desire podcast. You're biblically based and clinically informed approach to healing from
0:14.8	betrayal and breaking free from compulsive sexual behaviors. Today is episode 437 and here joining me as my co-host for this
0:23.3	series is Ashley Jamison. Ashley, welcome back. Good to see you again. Happy to be here,
0:29.3	especially to represent the women. Yes, well, that is what this month, this series is all about.
0:34.7	We are on part three of four in a series on celebrating,
0:39.0	elevating, hearing women's voices. I mean, we know women are involved in recovery,
0:43.8	but often they don't get enough platform. And I think today's topic is one of those that
0:50.0	needs a platform. And this is a voice that needs to be heard. And that is our guest Tabitha Westbrook
0:55.2	as we talk about recognizing abuse in marriage. Okay, let me tell you what I appreciate about this.
1:03.0	Nick and I both sat through Tabitha's session at the PSAP summit through, through I tap,
1:08.7	it's a lot of letters. That's neither here or there or there. But
1:11.4	when Nick went through her session, he was saying, we got to get her on the podcast to talk about
1:17.0	this. And so as a person who has been in abusive situations, abusive relationships, and a
1:23.3	betrayed spouse, I appreciate that you being the guy saying, hey, we need more people to hear
1:30.0	about this. So I was really excited that you wanted to push this forward and just excited about
1:35.2	what pure desire can offer that. We are all for the addict and we are all for the victims and
1:41.4	survivors and betrayed spouses. And we know that it all walks through our doors.
1:46.1	And so we need to highlight these different things.
1:50.3	And this is a harder conversation.
1:52.1	It is so full of goodness.
1:54.3	I would encourage everybody, church helper, leader, pastor, friend, betrayed spouse, addict to listen, but just know that there could be some conversation
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