Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. I'm Anne. Today we have Amy Kate, an advocate for partners of those with sexual addictions and a survivor of two marriages that ended due to sexual addiction. She has six awesome kids. She's trained through the Association of Partners of

Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists. We call that APSAT here and also by the American Association

for Sex Addiction Therapy, which is a-a-s-a-s-a-s-a-t.

She is a fierce warrior determined to point women to freedom and healing found at the feet of Jesus.

And she's also a customer service representative at Covenantize and she can be found at

Psalm40.com. Welcome Amy Kate. Thanks for having me.

So Amy Kate, welcome. We're going to talk to you a little bit about your personal story.

So we know that you went through two marriages with sex addiction.

Tonight let's focus on the second marriage and what happened there.

Can you talk to me about what your life was like before that D-Day with your second spouse?

I was divorced from my first husband who was a porn addict and I met this guy who was everything that I never imagined existed.

He was soft, he was sweet, he was feminine, but not in a weird way,

he was just this really super awesome, amazing guy. I was not actually a Christian at the time

neither was he. We dated for a couple years and then we bought a house together and we went to church and we both got saved in that church.

And when we got saved, we got convicted for living together so we got married. I had already had six

children from my first marriage and he was a very good stepdad. My children

were rather young it was a pretty normal life I

had the kind of relationship that my friends were jealous of because my husband was always home.

He would do chores.

He didn't leave his underwear on the floor.

He looked like this model man and life was good. I had all kinds of health problems but even despite all that life was just good.

Then in 2010 after a couple major surgeries and a foreclosure on my house.

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