I Gave Up My Husband for Lent: Finding Hope by Breaking My Cycle of Unhealthy Relationships

I Gave My Husband Up for Lent

De: Melissa J. Peters

Narrado por: Melissa J. Peters

It’s Time to Make YOU Your Priority

Are you the Yes Girl? The one who doesn’t know how to say no? The fixer in all your relationships? Have your boundaries become unrecognizable? Do you feel so empty you find yourself seeking something you can neither define nor find, and you just feel lost?

You’re not alone, sister.

In her book, I Gave Up My Husband for Lent, Melissa J. Peters invites you to settle into a front-row seat of her story. Walk with her through her journey of codependent relationships, watch her transformation, and learn from her lessons along the way as she struggles with being married to an alcoholic, faces disillusionment, seeks help through therapy, and finds hope by pursuing a deeper relationship with God.

Written with honesty and boldness, she shines light on the true problems in her relationships and how she broke free from brokenness, pain and exhaustion. She will guide you along a path of perspective, sharing how to look inside yourself and unpack WHY you do the things you do.

Melissa will explain how she found hope by breaking her cycle of unhealthy relationships.

Speak your truth. Take control of your life. And create fulfillment by believing in yourself and all of your capabilities.

©2024 Melissa J. Peters (P)2024 Melissa J. Peters

Engaging with Emotional Depth.

Peters shows limitless compassion and support for women wanting to break the "cycle of unhealthy relationships." She shares her experiences, trauma, and recovery. She then offers recommendations and guidance to those experiencing similar trauma and situations. Peters broke the cycle and wants readers to also. Though the book's length is 8+ hours, it went by quickly. The narrator did great and was easy to listen to.
---Christina Francine, Author of The Woman in Green from Cromarty: A Legend

A Courageous Tale with Valuable, Practical Advice

Despite the humorous title, this book is the most powerful, honest and hopeful book I’ve read written by a co-dependent survivor of domestic abuse. Melissa Peters spells out the warning signs from A to Z of the ways abusers use manipulation and control to destroy the self-esteem of their victims. She witnessed it in her family and found herself in two relationships that led her to marrying addict abusers.

Therapy and supportive friends helped her escape these marriages so she could begin to repair the psychological damage she’d endured. Throughout her years of trauma, she journaled her feelings, so that in this book she not only describes what it felt like to be abused but she provides a detailed checklist for readers to use to understand if they may be willingly or unwittingly co-dependents of addicts and abusers.

She shares her own journey how, despite her sincerest efforts to “fix” her abuser husbands and make herself lovable to them, ultimately she realizes she is the problem. To fix herself, she had to leave those toxic marriages, so with therapy she could learn to value and love herself for who she was. Her commitment to her recovery led her to a loving partner who shared her values, and with whom she could build a life and raise children. With this book, she tosses a lifeline to others who, like her, find themselves in co-dependent relationships with addict abusers. Bravo Melissa!