How much do you really know about sex addiction?
“With Sex Addiction: The Partner’s Perspective, Paula Hall has effectively shined a light on an otherwise much underserved clinical population: those spouses and partners traumatised and otherwise negatively hurt due to the ongoing sexual and/or emotional betrayal of a cheating spouse.”
– Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S, US therapist, educator and author of Always Turned On: Understanding Sexual Addiction in the Digital Age.
A condition that can be kept hidden for many years, sex addiction not only wrecks the lives of those who suffer with it, but also wrecks the lives of their partners. Written by Paula Hall, one of the UK’s leading sex addiction specialists, Sex Addiction: The Partner's Perspective features the first UK survey of the partners of those that suffer from sex addiction, a condition that only 9% of partners thought was a real condition* – until it affected them.
“There are three main reasons why sex addiction hurts so much.” States Paula. “The first is the social stigma associated with the condition, the second is the painful and often drawn-out process of disclosure or discovery, and the third is the assumptions and misunderstandings made by some well-meaning friends and untrained therapists.”
Sex Addiction: The Partner’s Perspective addresses these issues and gives partners, and those who want to help them, the guidance and tools needed to survive the emotional turmoil caused by discovering their partner is a sex addict. With 95% of partners feeling shock, grief and confusion at their partner’s diagnosis*, this book explores the myths and realities surrounding the condition, allowing partner’s to learn how to survive the trauma, understand their reactions, reclaim their self-identity and face the future.
“Sex addiction is the most intimate wound that any partner can be forced to face, and the most brutal attack a relationship can be expected to endure.” Paula says. “But partners do survive and so do many relationships.”
Featuring a range of revealing statistics and real life stories, this book is a practical asset that is full of facts and self-help exercises to give partners a much needed sense of stability and control after their discovery and will help partners not only survive, but to grow stronger and move on with their lives.
* Statistics drawn from survey of 126 people.
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About the Author:
Paula Hall is one of the UK’s leading sex addiction specialists and author of Sex Addiction: The Partner’s Perspective. She created the Europe-wide Hall Recovery Course for people with sex addiction and the Hall Recovery Course for Partners. She is also a renowned speaker and trainer, and founder of the Institute for Sex Addiction Training.
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