Infidelity causes intense emotional pain--anger, disbelief, fear, guilt and shame. But an affair doesn't have to mean the end of your marriage.
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Today is exactly 7 months since our very first post on this blog. We wanted to first say thank you to all of you for being readers. We have learned and grown a tremendous amount with the help of all of you, and we truly hope that you have been able to learn from us. [...]
Virtually all of our posts on this blog to date have been geared towards helping couples save their marriage or relationship after an affair. Sometimes however, after all the soul searching, therapy, pain and emotions it becomes evident that the only conclusion that can be made is that the marriage must come to an end. [...]
Happy Wednesday! This week’s discussion topic just sort of landed in our lap late yesterday afternoon when a reader asked a question. I thought it might be a good topic to throw out there for discussion. Here it is, short and to the point: Does having an affair make one a bad person? If any [...]
Many of you are struggling with putting a finger on just what caused your spouse to cheat on you. After all, you may believe that everything in your marriage was just fine until the affair happened. If you analyze your marriage over time though, you might be able to determine the underlying circumstances that contributed [...]
Looking back when I first became suspicious of Doug’s emotional affair I remember Doug trying to convey to me what was missing in our marriage. He said that he wanted the “in love” feeling, the feeling of excitement and newness like when we first met. Little did I know that he was describing what he [...]
I have been reading a book by one of my favorite authors called “Passion,” by Barbara de Angelis. Today I have decided to share an excerpt from the book about keeping the passion of love alive. Keeping the passion alive is especially important in preventing an affair, but also while recovering from an affair. This [...]
Yesterday I was re-reading some of Dr. Frank Gunzburg’s book about how to save your marriage by keeping danger out and love within. I got to thinking about what Linda and I have done to not only save our marriage, but effectively keeping our love alive and growing our relationship on a regular basis. One [...]
Happy Wednesday! Let’s get right to the point here. We feel we have an interesting subject for this week’s open discussion: Commitment is the glue that holds two people together through difficult times. Has experiencing an affair changed your views on commitment within your marriage? What enables you to stay the course and not waver [...]
My computer crashed July 4th and I had several tabs open for sites that I frequent. In order to find them again I looked in the history to bring them back up and noticed that there were a couple of sites that had been opened that were Tanya’s –her Facebook account and her work site. [...]
Every now and then we get some real gems from you guys in the comment sections that can help others in recovering from an affair, and we feel we just have to share with everyone. Today we would like to do just that. Here is a comment left by Jay to our most recent Open [...]
