Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery, BTR.org. I'm Anne. I'm sure you remember what it was like when you were searching for help, maybe for your husband, hoping to find the right program or therapist. That's why I started podcasting. I supported my husband through seven years of pornography addiction recovery and not one therapist during that time told me I was experiencing emotional

and psychological abuse and sexual coercion. I didn't want any other woman on the planet to be in

the dark. If you're like the majority of my listeners, you're experiencing the type of abuse that's

invisible and difficult to wrap your head around. Your husband is using porn or having

affairs or lying to you, and you're getting the same bad advice about how to improve communication

or your relationship. If you need support from women who totally understand, check out our daily

group session schedule at BTR.org slash group. We'd love to see you in a session today. One simple, anonymous way to help spread the word

is to click, follow, or subscribe to the Betrayal Trauma Recovery podcast on your favorite

podcasting app. While you're there, every five-star rating helps make this podcast more visible

and will help save other women from getting the wrong kind of help, like a couple

program that will make this type of abuse worse. For those of you who follow or subscribe to this

podcast, thank you so much. Your support means so much to me. We have a member of our community

on today's episode. We're going to call her Jasmine. She wanted to share just a tiny bit of her story. She's just

kind of nervous. So welcome, Jasmine. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here.

So you noted to me that you were nervous, but you wanted to share. Talk to me about your desire

to share at this point in your life. It actually has been something that I've thought about off and on,

but honestly, what prompted me to go ahead and bite the bullet was the expansion of the Me Too movement.

Just seeing so many women's stories of men in power betraying them, whether it was within the family, within acquaintances and

friendships at school, at work. I'm seeing more and more often women that are dealing with

being violated and betrayed within relationship. And as I was hearing more and more women's

stories, I started to really see that,

wow, there's a lot of women that are dealing with the pain and dealing with their wounds and for so

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