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There were many times where I knew something was wrong and didn't know exactly what it was. He would come to me and say he was struggling with personal issues. And it came out at one time that it was an addiction to pornography. We finally went to a counselor, and everything was laid out on the table before me. Well, I didn't want to admit it. I didn't want to believe it. And I took it very personal, thinking, "It's my fault. I'm not what you want to look at. I don't weigh the right amount, or whatever it is." The devastation and the pain was at a place where we either had to fix it or I had to walk away. I was reading in Moses chapter 7 about Enoch: "And he beheld Satan; and he had a great chain in his hand, and it veiled the whole face of the earth with darkness; and he looked up and laughed, and his angels rejoiced." When I read that scripture, it hit me that the adversary was laughing at me as much as he was laughing at Troy and his addiction. I did not want to give him that power anymore. I didn't want to give him that. I wanted to take my family back. Heavenly Father blessed me and helped me to learn that this wasn't about me. It was an addiction. This wasn't just his battle, it was our battle. And I wasn't battling him; we were battling an addiction. I felt the Spirit say to me, "You know, I can heal you if you let me. If you let me, I can heal you." There's so much hope in turning to our Heavenly Father and to our Savior. If we want our marriage and our families to be eternal, then we need to go to Heavenly Father. And maybe it's not going to happen all at once, but little by little, if we do our part, with God nothing is impossible. And to this day, 10, 12 years later, it's the same. I know I've been healed. I know I've been healed. The adversary's victory would have been to destroy our family. Our victory, and Heavenly Father's victory, was that we did it--that we saved our family, that we allowed the Savior to save our family.

Meet Kerri

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Kerri is devastated by her husband's addiction to pornography, but finds hope and healing through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. See OvercomingPornography.org
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