Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne.

For the past two weeks, I've been talking with June about her story.

First of all, about being a parent of a child with special needs

while also being in a relationship with an

special needs while also being in a relationship with an abusive man.

If you haven't heard that yet, I encourage you to go back two weeks and listen to this

in order so that you understand what's happening.

This week, we are catching up on her story.

So if you haven't heard the beginning of it,

listen to last week's story

so that you know where we are in the chronology

of this journey that she is on.

So I'm just gonna recap really quickly. After being in an abusive

relationship for a number of years while also dealing with her child with special needs and also

other three children, she starts recognizing that her husband is abusive. special needs

to be,

basically to see if she can get some help from her clergy

and ends up basically being emotionally abused

by her clergy as well. So at this point, June, you're realizing that you can't

get help from clergy and you need to turn somewhere else. What do you do next?

I start educating myself. Like I said I went to the library

I got books on domestic abuse and violence, sexual addiction. I listened to BTR. I found a lot of comfort and guidance in really identifying the

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