Welcome to Hope for Wives.

With your co-hostesses:

• Pam Blizzard from recoveredpeace.com
• Lyschel Burket from hoperedefined.org
• Bonny Burns from strongwives.com

In Today's episode, we are going to discuss emotional or relational safety. What is it? How do you navigate it? How do you try to rebuild it?

We Discuss

• What is relational or emotional safety to you?
• How is emotional or relational safety ruptured when one spouse has a sex addiction?
• How does a betrayed partner start to rebuild emotional safety?
• How can we offer hope to our listeners when it comes to emotional or relational safety?

Nuggets of Wisdom:

"...not to feel better, but to get better at feeling," Pam Blizzard.

"Both of you are responsible for rebuilding this emotional safety with each other," Lyschel Burket.

Resources

VOWS - acronym of thoughts to help build new emotional and relational safety.

• V - Vulnerability
• O - Ownership
• W - do your Work
• S - create Safety for yourself and your spouse

Emotional Safety definition found in wikipedia

King & Country - God Only Knows

Final Thoughts

Thank you for sitting in with us today. Our deepest desire is that you will find encouragement, insight, and maybe even a laugh or two in the many episodes to come. We will talk with you again in two weeks.