Shattered Vows: Hope and Healing for Women Who Have Been Sexually Betrayed

What it is

Debra Laaser's husband Mark lost his ministry to sexual addiction, and she is the one who was standing there when it happened. Shattered Vows is written from that position and from the decades she then spent working with betrayed women at Faithful & True. Her insistence — you do not have to live as a victim — is not a demand that a woman minimize what was done to her, but an argument that her healing cannot be held hostage to her husband's progress, which is the trap most betrayed wives fall into. She covers the shock, the identity collapse, the decisions about staying or leaving, and the long work of rebuilding a self. Published by Zondervan. With AfterShock, Intimate Deception, Rescued and Your Sexually Addicted Spouse, this is the core partner shelf; Laaser's is the one most often named by women who stayed in the marriage.

What it may help with

• My spouse's porn use has hurt me
• We're rebuilding our marriage

How to access it

Paperback, ebook and audiobook (Zondervan) Purchase from a bookseller

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