Welcome to betrayal trauma recovery. I'm Anne. It's summer and I remember being so excited thinking my

marriage would improve as we spent quality time together on that road trip or family reunion. If you end up

having the same experience I did where vacations left me feeling more hopeless and scared because I

found out on one of those trips that my husband was using explicit material and lying to me about it.

We're here for you every day all summer long.

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You can hop on one of our daily group sessions from anywhere.

We're an empathetic team of betrayal trauma professionals and we can help you right away.

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healing without fear of being traumatized by a therapist or clergy who might seem to think that

you're part of the problem. You're not and you're not alone. If you're ready to join a community

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needs to hear this. Heidi Hastings and Rebecca Lucero Jones, two researchers, are back on the podcast today. They're going to share the results of two studies. The first is how women's religiosity and spirituality were affected by their partner's porn use, and then the results of when they studied how a partner's porn use affected a woman's sexuality. Their research revealed

some very interesting things about online infidelity, otherwise known as pornography use.

I picked out seven things. I'm not going to point them out as they're sharing. So as you're listening to

them share their research, hopefully you can hear these themes. Number one, sometimes his porn use

is just the tip of the iceberg. Because of the psychological abuse of altering your reality,

you might think he's telling the truth because he's telling

you some of the story, but later you find out more of it. Number two, this has happened to many,

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