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Betrayal Trauma Recovery - BTR.ORG

Is Cheating Emotional Abuse?

Betrayal Trauma Recovery - BTR.ORG

Anne Blythe, M.Ed.

Education, Sexuality, Relationships, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Learn from Dr. Omar Minwalla why cheating is abuse.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery, BTR.org. This is Anne. I'm sure you remember what it was like when you didn't understand what was going on in your marriage.

0:11.0

When you were searching for help, maybe for your husband thinking if you were searching for help, maybe for your husband thinking

0:14.4

if you found the right program or therapist, it could help him. When I realized what

0:19.6

was really happening, I couldn't believe I'd supported my husband through seven years of

0:24.8

pornography addiction recovery and not one therapist during that time told me I

0:29.2

was experiencing emotional and psychological abuse and sexual coercion.

0:33.7

Like, how does that happen?

0:35.3

Why is it that we go for help?

0:37.2

But instead, we just get dismissed over and over and over

0:41.3

by therapists, by clergy, by other professionals?

0:44.0

Why doesn't anyone understand this type of abuse?

0:48.0

That's why I started podcasting.

0:50.0

I didn't want any other woman on the planet to be in the dark about what was really happening to her.

0:57.0

If you feel the same way, one simple way to help spread the word, an anonymous way, is to go to Apple Podcasts or your favorite

1:04.4

podcasting app. Find the BTR.org podcast and click on follow or

1:09.4

subscribe. Just pushing one little button on your favorite podcasting app will bump this

1:14.7

podcast up in the algorithm. By anonymously pushing that button, you could be the

1:20.0

miracle some other woman out there needs because there are so many women praying for

1:24.8

answers and they don't know where to look. While you're there a five-star rating

1:29.4

helps too and can save other women from getting the wrong kind of help, like a couple program that'll make this type of abuse worse.

1:37.0

If you've already purchased a copy of my book Trauma Mama Husband Drama available on Amazon. Thank you. Please circle back and give it a five star rating because same thing goes there. A lot of women search for books about betrayal trauma on Amazon and raiding traumauma Mama there will help them find this

1:54.8

podcast which is free to everyone. If you're new to the podcast consider

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