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77: The Betrayal Bind with Michelle Mays: Healing the Attachment Wound After Infidelity
How do you recover when the person you love has betrayed you? Author Michelle Mays (LPC, CSAT-S) joins Luke Gordon to explore The Betrayal Bind — the painful paradox of needing the very person who hurt you. Discover how attachment theory, betrayal trauma, and nervous system science explain what happens after infidelity and how both partners can rebuild trust.
Topics include:
The three wounds of betrayal: emotional, attachment, and sexual
Why “attachment ambivalence” feels like chaos
How betrayed and betraying partners can reconnect safely
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