Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-257).
Contents
When your partner's sexual addiction shatters your world. What is trauma and post-traumatic stress? ; A study in contracts : is it co-addiction or is it trauma? ; Why your partner's sex addition hurts so much : attachment bonds betrayed ; How the addiction and trauma models differ in helping you heal ; Trauma impacts on every level : potential physical and mental health side effects of trauma -- Your journey toward wholeness. Healing from trauma and post-traumatic stress ; From crisis to stability ; From integration to triumph -- Stories from the other side. From the hearts of sex addicts who "get it" and care ; From the lives of partners and former partners of sex addicts -- The rest of the journey.