Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne.

Last week I started my conversation with Isabelle about her abusive relationship with a man who was not only deceiving her and lying to her and viewing pornography but also marital rape.

If you didn't hear the first part of our interview together, please go to last week's

episode, catch up there first and then join us here today.

If you haven't checked out our Betrayal Trauma Recovery Group

session schedule, you can go to BTR.org

click on services and go to daily support group.

You can get in to talk to a professional BTR coach

and other women who are going through similar circumstances that you are today.

Because our schedule has multiple sessions per day in multiple time

zones.

So please check that out.

It's an amazing resource.

We built it on purpose the way that we did so that women can talk with people who

really understand it and can help them get to safety right away rather than

talking to people who don't really understand emotional abuse or verbal abuse.

Okay, so now we're going to continue the conversation we had last week with Isabel.

So as you were getting divorced, you had mentioned that the marital rape issue became an issue with the law. Can you talk about that and how that made things worse for you in the divorce?

Yes.

So when I first decided that I was going to need an attorney,

I first went talking to attorneys

for a legal separation.

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