Beyond Broken Vows | Christian Marriage, Adultery, Pornography Addiction, Sexual Betrayal, Intimacy

All summer long, we’ve sat with courageous friends from the Beyond Broken Vows family.

 

Aimee, Kevin, Felicia, Jacob & Leah, Suzanne, RD, Heidi, Tricia, and Emily each opened up their lives and shared the raw, unfiltered “messy middle” of betrayal and recovery.

 

Nine stories. Nine marriages. Nine unique journeys through the wreckage ...

Emily married her “Prince Charming” at 20, expecting a lifetime of safety. Instead, she spent the next two decades in a silent battle with betrayal.

 

Just three years into their marriage, she discovered evidence of affairs. Rather than seeking help, she fell into the trap of shame, blaming herself and spending 17 years trying to “perfect” her way into a better ...

For twenty-two years, Tricia’s marriage carried a quiet, underlying tension. Five years in, she discovered her husband’s pornography use.

 

For decades after, she lived in a state of constant, lonely hypervigilance, trying to manage the distance without any outside help.

 

Then, the ground beneath her completely gave way.

After a co...

The trauma in Heidi’s marriage didn’t start with a slow fade. It started the day after her wedding, when she answered a phone call from a woman her new husband had been sexually involved with.

 

For the next 17 years, Heidi lived in the fog of a marriage that looked fine on the outside. But inside, she felt married to a stranger.

 

Then the facade ...