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(Re-Release) Bitch Sesh: Pregnant and Betrayed - He Wanted A Family...Then Cheated To Start Another | Loren Greye
This episode of Bitch Sesh originally aired on August 21, 2025.
If you or someone you love is experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or visit www.thehotline.org
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In this raw and emotional episode of Bitch Is a Bad Word, survivor Loren Gray shares her powerful story of escaping a covertly abusive relationship while raising a young child. Loren’s story sheds light on the often-missed signs of coercive control, financial abuse, emotional manipulation, and the deep trauma that can exist even without physical violence.
What begins as a seemingly perfect relationship quickly spirals into isolation, financial control, sexual coercion, and deep emotional harm—all under the guise of love and support. Loren explains how abuse doesn't always look the way we expect, and how victims can lose their voice long before they recognize they're being silenced.
⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussions of emotional abuse, sexual coercion, postpartum trauma, gaslighting, and parenting while surviving domestic violence.
🎙️ Topics Covered:
Why coercive control is more dangerous than it looks
What financial abuse really looks like in a relationship
Navigating new motherhood while being isolated by a partner
How abusers use "protection" and “fixing” as manipulation
The moment Loren realized she was no longer herself—and how she began to reclaim her power