Article in Psychology Today Michelle Mays’ latest blog post, When We Go Blind to Cheating, explores the concept of betrayal blindness—the ... Read More »
The Nature of Betrayal, Part 2
In the last blog post, we started looking at the five stages that all betraying individuals move through. Betrayal unfolds in the following ... Read More »
The Nature of Betrayal, Part 1
We use the word betrayal to describe the experience at the heart of broken trust. But betrayal is not just an event, it’s a process, and it unfolds in ... Read More »
5 Building Blocks to Understanding Betrayal Trauma, Part 3
In this series of posts, we are exploring the way in which betrayal creates traumatic responses that impact our body, brains and minds. We are ... Read More »
5 Building Blocks to Understanding Betrayal Trauma, Part 2
In this series of posts, we are exploring the way in which betrayal creates traumatic responses that impact our body, brains and minds. We are ... Read More »
5 Building Blocks to Understanding Betrayal Trauma, Part 1
When we experience danger, stress or trauma our threat response system fires up and moves us to toward fight, flight or freeze. However, because ... Read More »
When Your Cheating Partner is Not Sexual with You
Sexual betrayal always creates a sexual injury for betrayed partners. This injury can be mild to severe and can be experienced in many ways. But, ... Read More »
Why Disclosure Takes So Long & Why It’s Worth the Wait: Honoring the Process
Disclosure is a Process In my previous posts on why the disclosure process sometimes takes so long, we discussed the fact that proper assessment of ... Read More »
Why Disclosure Takes So Long & Why It’s Worth the Wait: Time to Get Honest
Part Four: Your Partner Needs to Get Honest In my previous posts on why the disclosure process sometimes takes so long, we discussed assessment of ... Read More »
