“I have recently binge listened to a lot of these podcasts and they have spoke to my heart and soul.
After recently discovering my spouses porn addiction and emotional affair I have been at a complete loss and feeling so helpless and worthless. I have found some affair recovery videos that have helped explain the confusion, pain and anger in my heart and gave me validation and pointing to some very needed resources. But I was still left wondering “why” and “how”.
I found this podcast and started listening to try to better understand my spouses actions and thoughts. There were times they seemed to have described the exact conversation or exchanges that my spouse and I had and gave insight to possibly the reasons why. So many instances of “wrong thinking” or immature behaviors that I could never grasp.
By listening with an open heart and mind in hopes of gaining empathy for my husband and his pain, I was able to put so many pieces of our life together and see how the affected one another. I had been looking at most of them as individual characteristics but almost all of them are connected and when put together I am now able to see the whole puzzle or picture. I still have many missing pieces that I hope I can someday come to better understand but I am feeling so much better than before I started listening. I feel like I am able to have a more compassionate heart for my husband and see his broken pieces. I had never considered all the different ways that porn could influence or affect a person, their personality and their relationships.
These two gentlemen are vulnerable and informative in such a beautiful way that it takes away a lot of the stigmas and misunderstandings that I had carried. I’ve seen people say the laugh too much but I have felt so close to what they are speaking to that I feel the laughter sometimes in my heart too. And bringing some laughter to a very difficult situation is not wrong. I just helps lighten our hearts if we allow it to.
I am so grateful for this podcast and all the ways it has helped me understand something that so few can or will talk about. I have had a judgmental heart from all of my religious influences of my past but I can now see things from a much different perspective and can have empathy and compassion for the addicts core desires and not just their external behaviors.
Thank you so much. I hope these two gentlemen realize the impact that are having on people and continue to share their hearts, experiences and wisdom.”
Need to walk more! via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/09/21