Your partner cheated on you, lied to you, and violated you and your relationship contract right up until the moment they were caught.

Now, they’re begging you to believe them… but can you?

The term "trickle truth" describes the progressive disclosure of information that was first concealed, most of the time as a result of a lie. The idea relates to the gradual exposure of information that was initially hidden. This phenomenon has significant repercussions for individuals as well as for businesses, particularly with regard to compulsive sexual behavior.

The field of sex addiction has been overly focused on the nature of sex addiction, how to describe and classify it and how to best treat the addict. In this process, there can be neglect of partners and spouses of sex addicts.

Partners and spouses of sex addicts are a profoundly and clinically traumatized population who are disenfranchised from adequate, informed care and ethical treatment. There are many, many partners and spouses who continue to be further harmed, confused, disoriented and re-traumatized by traditional co-addiction treatment interventions that focus on educating and helping partners with their “own disease” called co-addiction while ignoring the treatment of trauma.