Full Disclosure: How to Share the Truth After Sexual Betrayal

What it is

Staggered disclosure is what happens by default: he tells her some of it, she finds more, he admits a bit more, and each round re-injures her and resets the clock on trust. Clinicians handle this differently — one prepared, structured, therapist-facilitated disclosure, written in advance, with both people supported through it. Dan Drake and Janice Caudill wrote the workbook for preparing that document, with Stefanie Carnes, and there are companion volumes written to partners: one on preparing for disclosure on your own terms, one on healing afterwards. This is genuinely not a solo project. Working through it without a trained clinician on both sides tends to produce either a confession that spares the teller or one that devastates without structure. Use it as the map for a process a specialist is running.

What it may help with

• We're rebuilding our marriage
• My spouse's porn use has hurt me
• I need professional counseling

How to access it

Paperback workbook; companion volumes exist for partners Purchase from a bookseller

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