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Mending a Shattered Heart
by Stephanie Carnes, Robert Weiss, Omar Minwalla, Sonja Rudie, Jennifer Schneider, Cara Tripodi, Mavis Humes Baird, Joe Kort, Barbara Levinson, Patrick Carnes, Paul Hartman, Virginia Hartman
from Gentle Path Press
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Amazingly Helpful and Insightful 
What an amazing, helpful, honest and insightful book for a partner, spouse, or significant other of a sex addict.
YES there is HOPE for you! Helpful insight, ideas, theory, and from a personal point of view. It gave me such hope, and I have been using many of the tools and ideas in my life, in my heart and mind to heal myself! My husband and I have both benefitted from it.
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Some good info for partners of sex addicts 
This book has some good info for spouses/partners of sex addicts. It has essays by a number of people, that many may find useful.
I did have a couple of problems with it, however.
In the first place, it assumed that all spouses/partners are co-addicts, somehow taking some of the blame on themselves, being enablers, etc.
However, not everyone thinks they are somehow responsible for anyone else's behavior but their own. Not everyone thinks that "if only I'd done this, things would be... more info
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A great book for sexually addictive couples!
When a couple enters therapy and one partner exhibits sexually addictive behaviors, the non-addicted partner (co-addict) often asks me to "Fix my partner!"
With all couples, however, I emphasize shared responsibility. When one partner has an addiction, they are an addicted couple. When the woman is pregnant, they are pregnant. When one has an affair, both share the burden of how to resolve it.
I had the privilege of writing a chapter for this book called, "Straight Guise: Is My Partner Gay?" I... more info
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