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Betrayal Bind Summary

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

Michelle Mays

Key Themes in the Betrayal Bind Summary

  • betrayal trauma
  • attachment injury
  • infidelity recovery
  • partner sex addiction
  • relational trauma

Best Quotes from the Betrayal Bind Summary

  • You're not crazy - you're experiencing normal reactions to an extraordinarily complex trauma.

  • Our safe person has become the source of our pain.

  • Betrayal trauma often continues unfolding after discovery in what therapists call 'trauma in waves.'

  • Sexual betrayal creates not one but three overlapping injuries.

  • Shame cuts deeper by making us feel fundamentally flawed or defective at our core.

Characters in the Betrayal Bind Summary

  • Michelle MaysAuthor and therapist who shares her experience

About the Author

About the Author of Betrayal Bind

Michelle Mays is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist and Supervisor, and the author of The Betrayal Bind: How to Heal When the Person You Love the Most Has Hurt You the Worst, a groundbreaking guide on healing from sexual betrayal and relationship trauma. With over 20 years of clinical experience, Mays specializes in treating betrayed partners and created the innovative Attachment-Focused Partner Betrayal Model™ to address the unique challenges they face.

Her expertise stems from both professional training and personal experience—she navigated her own betrayal trauma while earning her graduate degree in counseling.

In 2011, she founded the Relational Recovery Institute in Leesburg, Virginia, and later launched Braving Hope®, a premier online coaching program for betrayed partners worldwide. Mays is also the author of The Aftermath of Betrayal and has been featured in Psychology Today, MindBodyGreen, and Woman's World Magazine. She is currently completing her PhD in Clinical Sexology.

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