Survivors and Partners: Healing the Relationships of Sexual Abuse Survivors

Simply brilliant for me as a partner. The book deals with the survivor but does not forget the partner. Every relationship is different but the book covers all that I wanted. I am reading it for the second time. Bought 5 other books on marriage. Put together the could not surpass this book. Not long winded so that meant that if a portion was not relevant to my specific case I could get through it comfortably. Am going to buy a second copy.

The strength of this book for me was in its ability to describe all the important aspects of the experience of being the partner of a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. It did so while avoiding some of the more speculative material that is sometimes encountered in this category of books. The author is unusually qualified to understand his material, being both the partner of a survivor, and then (as he discovered later in his journey) as a survivor himself. A very powerful perspective.