I love this podcast, but was very surprised and deeply disappointed to hear the psychic ads. How can you possibly be supporting these crooks?! There is ZERO evidence that psychic powers are a thing, but PLENTY of evidence of how it is utilized to scam people. Talk about a betrayal to your listeners whom you should be protecting!

A psychic hotline ad on a podcast about emotional trauma and betrayal? Disgusting. I cancelled my subscription. Also, the framing and editing of season 4 is bizarre. None of Joel’s behavior is shocking when they tell you how many times he cheated and lied before “D-day” (another ridiculous editorial choice). The title should be “breaking news—fork found in kitchen.” This story didn’t deserve an entire season. Moreover, the way Caroline involved her children in her husband’s infidelity—further traumatizing them—was so gross. This show is exploitative and disingenuous.

The host is so professional and the episodes are very well planned. The questions must be very organized to have the speakers sound so well and the stories to flow so effortlessly. I read some reviews that the stories are slow but on the contrary, like a book, there needs to be background, references and descriptions. The foundation of a great story should be elaborate. The fast paced “shoot-em-up” mentality is for the basic folk who are not well read. Brava on great work and much research! Season 2. THERE IS NO REHABILITATION! Thanks for men like him children are kidnapped and held captive. Raped. I’d put him down and sleep Like a baby!!!

I’ve loved every season of this show and was super excited when the season 4 trailer came out. I’m only half way through the first episode and might not be able to finish because of how off putting the ads for psychic services are. This show claims to value stories of those that have been wronged, lied to or had their trust broken so I can’t understand why the producers would think advertising a scam service and encouraging listeners to use the service would be a good idea. It’s an AWFUL idea.

Great show! The only moment of pause came when you supported/promoted an add for California Psychics…. Uhhh what? For me, this really delegitimizes the quality of the show. Please no.

ACAB don’t forget it .

This new season 4 episode 1 felt a little bit off, with voices of the son at the beginning and the dad sat the end with intro of who they were and also the end didn’t have any closing statements from the mom and /or kids. It. felt like it was cut short or was edited by an intern without /feedback . Also I can understand people being spiritual or believe in all kind of crazy stuff but for goodness’s sake “ The Psychic Network “ ad read by someone in this team is an another betrayal ! I mean might as well read some Nigerian Prince ads while you are at it.

The show has been really enjoyable, but hearing an ad read by the host encouraging listeners to use psychics to help them overcome a betrayal is harmful and exploiting listeners in their most vulnerable moments. I truly hope this partnership is reconsidered, and the show acknowledges the harm caused by associating with such a problematic, exploitative industry. With all the time you’ve spent with victims and experts you should know better than to ever recommend a psychic to victims. I’m just so disappointed.

Love the show. But tremendously disappointed and confused as to why a podcast about people who’ve been tricked and lied too, often ripped off, would promote an 80s style 1-900 psychic line and actually reference her victims in the ad as a group that would benefit, when she knows these lines to be completely fake, with a history of preying on broken people and damaging them further financially. Really calls into question the legitimacy of any empathy or concern previously demonstrated.

Later Episodes are excellent and well produced. I really look forward to listening.

Would be much better without the political bias…

I have been following this show from the beginning, and have really enjoyed the thoughtful and gentle way topics are dealt with, but I have to say that all changed for me with this first episode of season 4. Advertising when I am listening to someone’s content does not bother me. I understand the nature of the beast. Sometimes, those ads may come from questionable companies, and the creators don’t always get to control that. BUT- when the creator of the show is the one READING the ad, which also sounds very icky, and makes implications that talking to this scam of a company will help you find “closure and clarity” from a predatory and ethically questionable company (California Psychics) that has actively used predatory tactics to prey on people in the past, I have a problem with it. Please for the love of god, if you are going to have a podcast talking about people being betrayed, maybe don’t read ads for a scam company that takes advantage of others.

Absolutely hooked. It’s like Season 1 but with cops. The betrayal is crazzzy.

Please focus on stories. These updates are lame. I’m so disappointed every week when I see that is what’s posted.

Look forward to long drives now bc of this show. My new favorite podcast!

The stories these beautiful souls share on this podcast have been therapeutic and healing in such an unexpected and profound way. Hearing others put their trauma into words has helped me find words for mine. THANK YOU!!

This is my favorite podcast and I have been missing the weekly series dearly. There is absolutely nothing else like this, and their extended break has left a void that no other podcast can fill! My only complaint is that I am annoyed by this break and the last several weeks of weird episodes. The original storyteller and creators were awesome, I don’t know what’s going on, but don’t change a thing.

The stories are so fascinating yet heartbreaking. I’ve listened to every episode and I can’t wait for more in May.

Am just feeling all the feels every time I listen. Keep up the good work.

This would be so much better with better editing and fewer mixed metaphors

Love listening

I love that this podcast gives women (and men) a platform to talk about situations that society as a whole typically victim blames so people keep quiet about them. I have related unfortunately and felt comfort knowing I was not alone.

Thank you for introducing me to Dr Truitt. It is exactly the resource I need to help me recover. I have already shared the episode with a friend who lost her daughter.

Absolutely engaging!

Incredibly well researched and reported. Munchhausen by proxy is a condition that seems uniquely tied to our times. These are important stories—and wow, will they blow your mind!

I look forward to every new episode! Thank you!!!

I like the show but episodes definitely don’t come out weekly

Andrea Gunning, thank you and your team. It always takes a village. You are great. The team’s thorough and timely portrayals using firsthand accounts of people who have experienced betrayals are outstanding. Let’s dig into those people who fall outside of the “lines.” Let’s take this further. This is real human experience no matter what… I appreciate this podcast mostly because of those who participate in it which takes courage. I’d like to tell everyone to stop acting like they’re therapists, and if they are therapists they’re still humans susceptible to betrayal, hence this podcast.

I’m so addicted to this show! Good to know I wasn’t the only one who fell for the wrong dude.

These stories are so compelling and well-told. I’m sad they’re on a break :( I want more

I love all of the detail that goes into each episode! They are all so thoughtful produced and great to bring awareness to others who could possibly suffer consequences from the crazies of the world. I've listened and started to re-listen when I need something reliably good to listen to!

Never had a betrayal but this show is so interesting. Andrea does a great job hosting and I wait every week for a new episode to drop!

If you like this show, just know this show has no respect for your intelligence

I found this pod the other day and I’m addicted! Been binge listening and find each and every survivor’s story to be engrossing and there are also lessons to be learned. Thank you and well done!

ETA I completely understand and agree that we should not victim blame and that it’s understandable to be a trusting person and that is how you can have healthy loving relationships. I also think it would be super important to recommend that women take some basic steps like checking through phones and laptops occasionally and not putting men on their financials before they’ve known them for several years. This is not the same thing as saying it’s their fault because predators took advantage of them but I still say women saying I would never go through the phone. Go through the goddamn phone before your children get sexually abused !!!! I love the show and haven’t written a review yet but after listening to this episode I have to put in my two cents. It alarms me that she moved directly from this traumatizing experience to a male therapist who she views as helping to heal her by “giving her the terminology“ to understand what had happened to her and how to proceed. This is just another example of her relinquishing herself to another person’s mind and ego, and in this case the Therapist dropped the ball. Placing the blame on Aaron for being a “addict“ is conflating the symptom with the cause. He was a narcissist, a textbook narcissist, who just so happened to have opioid use disorder. Those two things are only tangently related but even if he had been sober he would’ve done the same thing. The fact that she was not alerted to narcissistic abuse being the key factor in this situation is alarming. From the first few minutes I started listening and got the basics I already knew everything that was going to happen: taking her money, making her the primary caregiver of the child, him cheating, him either not being in the military or not having a real injury. I know that because he’s an addict? No- I know that because he’s a narcissist. Addicts in general can honestly be some of the least narcissistic and most wonderful caring people so it’s alarming that she has been led to frame this as it was just another dopamine hit. Please “torrah” if you read this you need to look up surviving narcissistic abuse and find counselor who specializes in it, and join the online community of mostly women but some men who have survived this exact scenario. You ended your episode by saying how hard this would be to believe but all of it is completely predictable and normal for those of us who are the slightest bit familiar with narcissistic personality disorder. If your therapist didn’t identify that as the core issue they are not qualified to lead you through this journey of healing. Please consider seeing a female therapist in the future as well. wishing the best for your recovery.

So uninteresting…seems like it’ll be true crime but then it’s like boring relationship stories where nothing happens and the stories are super meandering with unnecessary details

Nobody wants to think this could happen to them, but the truth is much more common than we want to admit. BRAVO to this podcast and guests for sharing their stories. Unfortunately, a must listen. None of us are immune. I’m really enjoying the Betrayal weekly series. I love her storytelling style and people and what they’re capable of continues to shock me week after week.

I absolutely love this podcast! I’ve learned that the nativity of a good heart can be taken advantage of and just because you have a good heart and were raised well doesn’t mean that all people in the world are good. This podcast just proves that monsters are real.

I can’t wait for every new episode to pop up each week. I’m bummed that I have to wait until May for new episodes. The last episode about Jan was excellent, it could’ve even been in a two-part episode, I definitely wanted more.

I am currently at a national sales meeting getting ready and listening to this show. this story resonated with me. This story not only pertains to my personal life and also my work life. We tell our story to make a connection with people so that they can resonate with the same story.

I just finished the first story of Jenifer Faison and Spencer Herron. When interested in a story, I research diligently. I found that many people, both men and women, were “disgusted” (highest shared word) by how Jenifer questioned the victims and spoke about them, as well as some victim shaming under the guise of empathy and making peace. I myself thought the opposite and was surprised people thought that about her. I thought she was truly empathetic, healed, and seemed like she didn’t hold any anger in her heart for the victims. Then the story continued and I came to realize what they had all realized. She constantly spoke about how she forgave these women, feels for them, etc., but blatantly obviously still holds anger and even some blame towards them. I think she was a women who was so blinded by love that she didn’t want to believe that love was faulty. I think she knew something was up but didn’t want her “perfect marriage” to end, so she simply turned the other cheek, and made herself believe the delusion that everything was wonderful. The “friend” victim said she very obviously saw how Spencer was with other women, and other comments by other victims pointed to the same thing. That means it was obvious to people outside of the marriage that he wasn’t faithful, which when one is cheating to such a drastic extent, with so many women, OBVIOUSLY people are going to be able to notice at times. You mean to tell me someone outside of the marriage noticed, but his own WIFE didn’t see ONE single thing that ever made her question him internally? I don’t think so. The only way that could ever possibly happen is if someone is in true denial, thus creating a delusion of a perfect marriage, perfect husband. I know this from first hand experience. To further my point, the way she still speaks about “Spence” (still using his pet name after all of this, and more) and is being passive aggressive towards certain victims with too many examples to write down, it shows people how she’s actually feeling versus what she’s saying she’s feeling. It’s anger. It’s internally hurt, passive aggressive anger. I truly hope she eventually does find real peace and that she can let go of that anger and hurt because it will continue to eat her alive if she doesn’t. She will not be able to have good relationship if she doesn’t let this all go, and everyone deserves a safe love. I have been through it myself and wouldn’t dare make a series about it until I was truly over it, which she clearly isn’t and that is why people can see that as each episode progresses.

I had a professional betrayal and hearing these stories and the resilience of the story tellers is cathartic. Thank you!

Why was Hannah’s story an episode at all, much less a two-part episode?! Yes, it’s awful that her husband cheated on her with her best friend, but no crime was committed. Did the Betrayal team run out of stories?!

I love this podcast and it knocks me off my car. This last one that was 2 parts, what was this? Nothing outrageous or rare? I have no idea why cheating with a best friend needs two parts?

This latest series on Hannah is pure drudgery. She’s obsessed with her ex and just as insecure and sad as he portrays in his “fictional” book. At least there was some self awareness near the end of her responsibility but hopefully she’ll move on and get over it.

Did we need 2 podcasts to let us know that someone’s husband cheated on them with their best friend. I could’ve seen that on a Facebook group with out the whole life story lasting an hour long. Come on . Also why be friends with him after that. What in the actual…

Absolutely love this podcast but the host interrupts the guest too much to say the same thing they are about to say. Please let them just talk and interject when a dramatic moment comes up.

Just because these seem rote -“rich woman/poor woman, cheated on” you have to realize that these are real people - it’s not just a story. It’s a way to let them tell their story, it’s to remind us that women’s goodness and trust and mothering seem to be taken advantage of and that is wrong and unjust. In real life women vs. men are still mostly the victims of crime, abuse, violence, and inequality. This podcast gives these women a voice.

This podcast is getting a bit too dramatic. There was a story last week when the lady said her relationships didn’t work because the men always wanted more than her and when she met the guy the story was about she said something like finally a man who isn’t a loser. And I’m like you never said anything bad about those other guys before. And ended up choosing the worst of them 🤷🏽‍♀️

It’s either a rich lady or poor one and they are always clueless.