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. I have a member of our community

on today's episode. We're going to call her Christine. She's a traveling nurse and the mother of five children.

Her children range in age from four to 23 years old. She's been with her husband that she has now

for seven years and this is her third marriage. So we are going to learn about her story today. Welcome.

Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm so glad to be here.

We're happy to have you. You've been married three times. Would you describe all three of your

marriages as psychologically abusive?

Sadly, yes, but I did not know that until going through this current marriage and all of the BTR resources.

I did not realize they were abusive.

For your first two where you got a divorce, looking back now, like, oh, that's what the cause was,

but you didn't know until BTR.

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