If you’re looking for the best books about emotional abuse in marriage, it’s important to understand all the ways a husband can be emotionally abusive.

Before covering the best books about emotional abuse, if you’re wondering if your husband is emotionally abusive, take this free emotional abuse quiz.

Trauma Mama Husband Drama is a picture book for adults, written by Anne Blythe, M.Ed. founder of Betrayal Trauma Recovery.

Books About Emotional Abuse Should Include Pornography Use

Too many religious leaders re-traumatize a woman when victims reach out for help because of their husband’s pornography use or lies.

Anne Blythe, founder of BTR, created Trauma Mama Husband Drama, in part to support women as they meet with clergy.

Women can bring this book with them when they meet with clergy, therapists, friends or family to help them understand this type of emotional abuse.

Books About Emotional Abuse Shouldn’t Victim Blame

Ever wonder if you are overreacting, expecting too much, imagining things, or just plain crazy? Are you wondering this because someone told you that you’re to blame?

Abusive men (including porn users) condition women to blame and berate themselves. When abusers gaslight their partners, women have difficulty detecting reality. They often believe that it’s their own intelligence, mental health, or emotional stability that is causing reality to feel so disorienting.

Trauma Mama Husband Drama helps delineate the truth about the chaos, abusiveness, and fear that women experience when their partners use pornography. This book validates and empowers women within themselves as they begin their journey to healing.

Books About Emotional Abuse Should Help Family & Friends Understand What You’re Going Through

Tragically, family and friends of victims often enable abusers to keep betraying and abusing – simply because they don’t understand abuse and trauma.

Trauma Mama Husband Drama is short, easy to read, and there’s a high likelihood a support person will read it.

Victims need support to get to emotional safety and ultimately heal from the devastation of betrayal trauma.

If you need support, attend a Betrayal Trauma Recovery Group Session. TODAY.

Transcript: Best Books About Emotional Abuse

Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne.

Purchase Trauma Mama, Husband Drama and Leave a Review

Some of you know that I have written a book called Trauma Mama, Husband Drama. It is a picture book for adults. It’s available on Amazon. Please check it out. It was written to help sexual coercion and betrayal victims.

When you receive your copy of the book, it will be a verified purchase. If you go to your Amazon account and give it a five-star rating, that makes a huge difference, too. The more five-star ratings we can get, the better this book will do on Amazon, and the more educated people can get about this type of abuse in relation to pornography use.

Give Trauma Mama, Husband Drama To Clergy

When you order Trauma Mama Husband Drama, please order multiple copies. One for you, one for clergy, and perhaps one for your local library. Order enough copies so you can give it out to people. This book needs to be passed around neighborhoods and through congregations.

I’m also writing a non-fiction book, that’s approximately 300 pages, about how pornography use is abusive to a spouse. The 300-page—it could be 380, I’m not sure what the final page number is going to be—that book is very detailed. It’s long and it has a lot of examples from victims. Which is great.

If you give the picture book or a 280 to 300-page book to clergy, the likelihood of them reading the picture book is a lot higher. That is the reason that I created it. It came about when I was hanging out with a few sheroes and we were joking around. I said, “Trauma Mama, feeling sad.” Everyone laughed and I thought, “That’s it. I’m going to write this book.”

Trauma Mama, Husband Drama is a Picture Book For Adults

The way that I found the illustrator was an absolute miracle. She is also an abuse survivor. She lives in Brazil. I won’t go into how I found her, but it was an absolute miracle. She’s an amazing artist and turned out to be the right one for the job.

I can’t even put into words what a miracle it was to find her because there were a lot of other artists that I got samples from, to see if their work would work. Just nothing was quite jiving. This particular woman, her name is Cristalwolf Lobazul, we really clicked. I’m so grateful for her hard work. It’s taken about a year and a half to create this picture book. We worked really hard on all the little details to make sure that it was really saying what we wanted it to say.

Helpful Infographics in Trauma Mama, Husband Drama

At the back of the book are a bunch of BTR infographics that really help people understand this type of abuse. We’ve got the Power and Control Wheel, we have the Abuse Cycle. We have all those things that can help you understand what is happening to you in a visual way.

This podcast is helpful to people, but there’s something about having this physical book, that’s visual, to help process it as well. It’s a different way of learning. It’s a different way of processing.