“Thank you for being a beacon of light and hope amidst my darkest times, I am a huge fan and try to recommend this show and the betrayed, the addicted, and the expert whenever I can. Your podcasts have helped me more than anything else. If you wouldn’t mind answering a question, I would be most grateful. I have been in my marriage for almost 9 years and have experienced betrayal and infidelity with acting out with porn and women from my spouse and the accompanying lies, deception, manipulation, and gaslighting (which I would characterize as emotional abuse). But my children and I have also experienced verbal abuse and intimidation from him and borderline physical abuse. I don’t know how common these things are in addicts but it is my reality. He has been in his most serious version of recovery for the past 5 months or so but he still lusts after other women constantly in front of me; it’s devastating. And he still has his intimidation moments that scare me. And it brings up all of the past hurts and wrongs that he has done each time he re-offends in these ways. I am really struggling to find inner peace and to attempt to start moving past everything. Sometimes I feel there has been too much damage and that I am too broken to heal from all of the trauma. Please help if you will, do you both have any advice for me?”
Ally the Californian via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/24/22