“I hate being misunderstood as the wife of a pornography addict. I didn’t cause my husband’s addiction, I can’t cure it, and I can’t control it. . . . I am just as powerless over my husband’s addiction as he is. It is only through God that my husband can maintain sobriety and recovery, and it is only through God that I can recover from the trauma I have experienced and that I continue to experience as I live with pornography in my marriage.”
Full of professional counsel and heartbreaking true accounts, Love and Betrayal shows exactly how pornography can impact a marriage and how Christ can intervene. Focusing specifically on the experiences of women and wives, Carmel White, PhD, and Natalie Milne cover the areas that are often overlooked—betrayal trauma, intimacy, forgiveness, and regaining trust.
Find help and healing with this in-depth exploration of the spiritual impacts of pornography and how the Atonement of Jesus Christ provides longed-for relief.
“Love and Betrayal is a much-needed resource for LDS women, couples, family members, friends, and leaders. The authors seamlessly weave together academic research, professional commentary, and personal stories from recovering women in an easy-to-read format. Not only does this book have good information on what betrayal feels like for women, it also offers a hopeful and clear path out of the trauma.”
—Geoff Steurer, MS, LMFT, coauthor of Love You, Hate the Porn: Healing a Relationship Damaged by Virtual Infidelity and founding director of LifeStar of St. George, Utah
