eBook One: Discovery
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In this ebook, we show you the things we wished that we knew at our own Discoveries and address your likely concerns. We help outline what you can expect in Discovery: impacts on you and his likely reactions. We will also offer the framework which most benefitted us when viewing his illogical behaviors. We discuss fidelity agreements and their loopholes, whether/how to confront, how to establish your evidence-based reality to help guide your decisions.
We raise questions about the “sex addiction” term and “recovery” approach, laying out other perspectives on what drives chronic cheating. We discuss sexually deceptive behavior in the context of deeper pathology, and offer our suggestions for partners to identify crazy-making behaviors, providing a more accurate map of the territory they're in. We help partners name chronic infidelity/deception/manipulative behaviors as Intimate Partner Abuse and discuss therapy options/therapy facts. We address empathy, compassion and forgiveness in the context of true remorse versus regret over his being caught. Lastly, we discuss partners emotional wounds and end with a formidable resource list of articles, websites, books and forums.