Staying In Marriage When Your Husband is Abusive

Betrayal Trauma Recovery

Anne Blythe, M.Ed.

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

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

When women choose to stay in a marriage after emotional abuse and betrayal, support, self-care, and boundaries are essential for her safety.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne.
0:04.0	Wow, I have Esther Josea on today.
0:06.7	She is a blogger at his dearly loved daughter.com.
0:11.1	Sorry.
0:12.4	We've been having technical difficulties. Both Esther and I have been feeling a lot of, what do we call it,
0:20.5	opposition to doing this podcast today. And so I'm just touched right now and
0:26.8	grateful to have her on the podcast. This woman is a woman of faith. In 2016 Esther discovered that her husband of nearly 17 years and the
0:37.3	love of her life had a serious sexual addiction and had been repeatedly
0:40.9	unfaithful throughout her marriage and I'll let her talk more
0:44.2	about that. But Esther I want you to start with how would you have described your
0:49.2	marriage before you found out about your husband's infidelity.
0:52.8	Before I found out, I would have called our marriage
0:54.7	an idyllic marriage.
0:55.8	I would have said that we had pretty much a storybook relationship.
1:00.7	We were best friends,
1:02.0	were each other's favorite person in the whole world. We've always enjoyed spending time together all of our friends all of our family a lot of them look to us as the example for marriage. It seemed really great.
1:15.0	What was it like to realize that everything you believed was a lie?
1:19.0	It was devastating. It shattered my whole world.
1:22.0	I've described it to people like a puzzle.
1:26.0	If our life is a puzzle,
1:28.0	and before that day I felt like my puzzle was altogether
1:32.0	to all the pieces fit, It was a really pretty puzzle.
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