The Betrayal Bind

How to Heal When the Person You Love the Most Has Hurt You the Worst

By: Michelle Mays LPC CSAT-S

Narrated by: Sarah Welborn

Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

What happens when your partner, your primary person, in an instant, becomes a source of danger and pain?

The Betrayal Bind introduces new language, concepts, and imagery to explore the crucial relational dilemma that betrayed partners face when their significant other is unsafe to connect to, yet connection is the key to healing.

Discovering a partner's sexual betrayal spins your world out of control. In a split second, your sense of safety is shattered, your trust is gone, and everything you thought you could count on is in question.

Betrayed partners, whether dealing with an isolated infidelity or a pattern of sexual compulsivity, need immediate support to navigate the new terrain of their relationship. They need a clear articulation of betrayal trauma, a thorough education about their normal attachment-based reactions, and a proven path to healing.

By focusing on how a partner's attachment system functions in the wake of sexual betrayal, The Betrayal Bind offers a new, game-changing exploration into an age-old problem and connects the dots from research to the lived experience of betrayed partners.

©2022 Michelle Mays (P)2023 Tantor

A must read

Therapist approved! A must read if you’re healing from betrayal trauma. Providers an thorough understanding of and how to heal from betrayal trauma.

100% recommend

Incredible book! The author is so knowledgeable and provides concrete steps and guidance. So helpful!

Just what I needed

This book changed my life, cleared the fog from my vision, stripped the blinders from my eyes, at a time when I was walking through life refusing to be honest with myself about my reality... all of these things which I was desperately longing for.

Solid advice. Need professional voice

The advice and deep dive into betrayal from a betrayed focus.The voice of the author is soooo distracting because of how robotic, amateurish and unpleasant it is. Her over enunciation is distracting. It’s such good information, I hope Michelle Mays considers hiring a professional voice talent.

A vital resource when recovering from betrayal

I have gotten more help out of this book than the several counselors whom I have spent a great deal of money to see. This gives you the nuts and bolts for reclaiming your life after a season of darkness.

So worth your time.

This book answered so many questions I had been struggling with. I thought I was crazy! One minute I hated my husband and the next all I wanted was for him to hold me. Michelle explains what this is and why it was happening. I am not crazy and my husband and I have been able to move forward again after being stuck for some time.

It all finally made sense!!!

Michelle’s book explained my feelings/injuries that made sense and provided comfort and hope. It was a game changer for my healing journey. Thankful I found it!

excellent 👍 I really like the way the author

the author is extremely well qualified in this subject she relates everything to the betrayal and she is very experienced I like listening to her I found this informative for trauma especially in the term of betrayal I like that she was from Seattle and I would read this book again and I definitely recommend it to everyone

Great transition

This book really helped me make sense of my fury in between therapy sessions. It helped me ask the right questions and think the right way.

Excellent resource!!

Recommend for both therapists working with betrayal trauma and those experiencing betrayal firsthand. Such a valuable resource!