Hope After Betrayal: Healing When Sexual Addiction Invades Your Marriage

by Meg Wilson

Please see rew revised edition now available

Countless women have been blindsided by their husband's sexual addiction. It is a shocking discovery that can leave women feeling hurt, ashamed, and even guilty. In Hope After Betrayal , Meg Wilson offers reassuring counsel, compassionate insight, and wise discretion—gently taking her readers through the steps to recovery. Combining Scripture and her own experience, Wilson reassures her readers that there is hope and healing after betrayal.

Genres: Marriage, Self Help, Nonfiction, Addiction, Christian

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 23, 2007

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Meg Wilson is a regular speaker to women's groups, Bible studies, and conferences. Five years ago she founded the Healing Hearts Ministry to offer help and hope to women whose husbands are caught in the web of sexual addiction.

Reviews

[Victoria (hotcocoaandbooks) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unlike other books dealing with healing from husband's pain, this one actually seems to give the best answers. It helps you understand better about how you are not only not responsible at all for the choices your husband makes in his sexual addictions, but that you shouldn't feed yourself with lies. Was a good book and was helpful, but a bit brief. It has great verses and journaling ideas at the end of each chapter. There is also perspectives of three different women and what they would deal with from anger issues, divorce, STDs, etc. . . .Definitely recommended for any wife who is going through a hard time in dealing with their husband's addictions. It talks also about the receptive husband and the husband who doesn't seem to care to change his ways.

[Natalie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm going to be reading different books on different topics so I can better help people who go through their own struggles. This was an okay book. There seems to be helpful things throughout. I didn't agree with a few things, but found some nuggets of wisdom that could be used in a counseling situation.

[Carlee Stefka · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Hopeful Guide

This book has helped me in so many ways. I’m continuing to learn and educate myself more on the subject but being provided different tools and stories to see this isn’t a one size fits all type of recovery made me feel seen and know I am not alone in this

[Angela · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a helpful and insightful book for me as I start this painful journey to healing. It shows me there is hope and that God is in control. All things are possible through Him! 🙏

[Mom · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is not for everybody - but if this is your story, grab this book!

[Jan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Title: Hope after Betrayal: Healing when sexual addiction invades your marriage
Author: Meg Wilson
Publisher: Kregel, 2018 paperback 9780825445675 184 pages $17.00
Reviewed by Jan Arkills
Years ago, Meg Wilson had her world shaken when her husband confessed to years of sexual addiction and she began the personal healing with her husband. They founded the Healing Hearts ministry and struggled through the process, and book number one was written in 2007. Now what we have here is the Revised edition, in 2018. Meg is a regular speaker at groups, conferences and they now have been married 35 years and live in Vancouver Wa.
This book starts with the original story and then the update on their lives, life has not been easy with the time in counseling, support groups and continual emphasis on the issues of sexual addiction. Statistics say that with the current cell phone and media access, there are far more men falling into the exploration of sex online, so our Christian men are increasing to fall victim also. To make the book more interesting and she shows other couples and their struggles, and their different personalities, she adds 4 other women to each chapter. You can see Meg and these 4 women meet their individual challenges, as not all couples go into counseling together or even separately and given that everyone had a different history and home life, as well as Christian life together if there is one. Every chapter ends with a Perspective portion and a Path Lights list of scripture and a journaling assignment. The 10 main chapters are written by Meg, the 11th is written by Dave her husband. Their journey has not been an easy one. This book is very honest and well not depressing, will give a wife and husband struggling with this problem in their marriage in its various position variations, such as prostitutes, long-standing affairs, molestations. With the worldwide problem of sex trafficking, this could be an eye-opening book of treatments and Christian growth for your congregation, if you buy this book for your church library. I am sure if you ask counseling leadership you will find it is a very important subject. There are many different types of addictions and this is just one of them. Check out her website www.hopeafterbetrayal.com . The scripture and her spiritual guidance will, the well-founded bibliography and Bible Studies you can obtain make this a very valuable addition. I will look forward to more materials from Meg Wilson. She would be an excellent speaker for a group.

[Wintermote · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a beautiful and powerful intro. The chapters following didn’t feel quite as hopeful and easy to connect with. I guess I need shorter, smaller bites somehow—still easily overwhelmed with this work from a faith perspective.