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Mall, host of I Survived. We're so proud of this show. We wanted to relaunch season one to hopefully

find new audiences for these stories. This episode is Linda. What I learned from Linda's story is that recovery can be a long journey. It isn't that you just go to therapy

for an amount of time and a bell rings and then you're cured. It's more of a road you walk

for as long as you need to, and one that might not have an end. But Linda's still trying,

and that's something to be proud of. This is episode 14. His eyes were black.

I guess now I try to pay attention to any red flags.

I need to pay attention to my gut feelings because it was all there.

The red flags, my anxiety, my gut feelings, the warning signs,

they were there. But in my state of being depressed and lonely, I was willing to overlook all that

and make excuses and think, well, it's just this, or he's really a nice person.

Linda grew up in Wisconsin and was still living there in 2007.

She was married and working as a veterinary surgeon.

But things weren't exactly perfect.

So at that time in my life, I had recently, well, I had gotten married to someone I thought was the perfect person for me.

We met online, believe it or not.

You know, we had a really good relationship and I thought we were going to be together forever.

But there was a lot of extra problems and stress in our marriage from outside factors.

So he had recently gotten a divorce.

He had three young little children.

We were trying to build a network marketing business.

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