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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Saturday night was our annual neighborhood hog roast and block party. It’s a chance to chat with neighbors both old and new, while drinking too much booze, and eating way too much food. Since we have lived in our house for twenty years, we have experienced many of these parties and have witnessed the [...]
When I first found out about my husband’s emotional affair, I frantically researched books and the internet on surviving infidelity, as I wanted to know what experts said about the chances of it lasting. What I found was that most resources sited only 10% of cheating spouses in affairs move on to long term relationships. [...]
In our first article of this two-part series, we discussed the 3 reasons you may be holding on to your anger. Today we are going to offer some tips for expressing your feelings in a more meaningful way so you can begin to let them go and work more towards surviving infidelity.
Once again, we will [...]
Good Wednesday!
Our focus this week is primarily on gaining control and handling anger after the affair. I know that when I found out about Doug’s emotional affair, I did not get angry–at least outwardly. I wish that I would have though, as I think it would have served as a way to flush [...]
Good Wednesday!
A marital affair is devastating on a marriage, but even more so to the victim. Devastating to them both physically and mentally. I know that my self-esteem took a huge hit after the affair. I’ve been able to regain much of it, mainly by reading books and educating myself about affairs [...]
Another major thing that we did this past weekend was see our son off to college — away from home — for the first time. I know that Doug is probably feeling the effects of our son leaving more than I, because now he is the only male left in the house. In addition to [...]
This weekend we met up with some of our old college friends and Doug’s fraternity brothers for a enjoyable night out. Some of these guys we haven’t seen in over twenty years. It was fun catching up on everyone’s lives, reliving old antics and feeling twenty again. For me it was especially enjoyable because I [...]
I have realized that neither Doug nor I were completely at fault for our marital mess. I really blame it all on stupidity. We really didn’t know what each other needed. I know that I didn’t take my marriage lightly as that is not my personality. I always put 100% into everything I do whether [...]
Happy Hump Day!
As betrayed spouses, we have heard every excuse, lie and rationalization in the book from our cheating spouses about their marital affairs. They tell us they want to move on. They say that they don’t want to talk about it. They say they can’t give the OP up. The list [...]
Michele Weiner-Davis has authored two books that I highly recommend: “ The Divorce Remedy” and “Divorce Busting.” Unfortunately, I found these books a little later than I would have liked, which was after months of trying to get Doug to let go of his emotional affair. However, the contents of each book gave me hope [...]
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