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. Before we get to this week's guests,

we have a lot of women who listen to the podcast who are not of any faith or aren't Christians.

I want to welcome everyone and thank everyone for listening. When women share on the podcast,

I always want them to share from their own personal faith or paradigm. That means that I

frequently share from my own and this podcast is not just for members of my church, but for everybody.

We have a member of our community on today's episode who comes from a Muslim background,

although she converted to Christianity. We're going to call her Naderra. Nadira and I are going to be

talking about covert emotional abuse. And as she shares her story, I'm going to stop and point out six examples of covert emotional abuse. And as she shares her story, I'm going to stop and point out six

examples of covert emotional abuse. Welcome to Dira. Hi, Ann. I have to say that's something

I really appreciate about your podcast because I know that you're a member of the Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-day Saints. And so when I first started listening, I thought

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