I tried to leave my husband and failed miserably. I had to take on the label of a sick and paranoid woman as I used my podcast as both a decoy and an outlet while I planned a new way to leave. I never expected people in the city I live in to hear my personal medical history or my podcast before they met me. I never expected my friend and a woman I considered a mother-figure to work behind my back with my abuser. But when you share your vulnerable self with the world around you, you lose control over what happens to you. Some people can't accept difficult truths so they call you sick and they call you a liar because they don't want to believe that what has happened could actually happen to a person; or worse, that they participated in it and they were on the wrong side. I lost almost everything through this experience, but life must go on and I still need to make a life worth living. I will share the experience of rebuilding my life so that those who find themselves in similar situations can have hope.