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If Your Eye Causes You to Sin
If your hand or foot causes you to sin,chop them off and cast them away,for it is better to enter life missing body partsThen to enter hell with all of them. (Matthew 18:8)If your eye causes you to sin,gouge it out and throw it away,for it is better to live life with one eyethan to…
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Dear Past Self
This is a letter I wrote to my past self, unedited, taken straight from one of my journals. While I wrote this, I felt a huge amount of regret for not only how my husband’s porn use hurt my marriage, but regret over getting married period. Written roughly around January 2023, about six months after…
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What I learned about forgiveness
Betrayal recovery has taught me a lot about forgiveness. It has challenged my previous assumptions about forgiveness, what it is, and what it isn’t. It has taught me a completely different way to forgive than what I was taught throughout my childhood. I know a lot about what forgiveness is not. It’s not reconciliation. It’s…
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A Deeper Dive Into the Day I Broke the iPad
Today I’m going to take you on a deep dive into the day I broke this iPad. This is a really difficult story for me to share. This is my second “D-day” (Disclosure/Discovery day, the day you find out about your spouse’s infidelities or other sexual sin). My first D-day was more of a disclosure…
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Dear Betrayed Spouse: an Open Letter
Dear Betrayed spouse, I am so sorry. What you’ve been through is absolutely horrible. You’ve been wronged on the deepest level possible. You didn’t ask for it. You don’t deserve it. It’s not your fault. But it has torn your life apart nonetheless. It’s such a shitty feeling, being cheated on. And even that doesn’t…