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 we are happy to provide you with a guest post from Tina Greenbaum, LCSW Holistic Psychotherapist and Relationship Coach. She is also the creator of the Couples Survival Toolkit. On Friday of last week, I had the pleasure of speaking on the phone with Tina about her approach to helping individuals and couples who [...]
This last weekend turned out to be a bit stressful for a couple of different reasons. For starters, one of our computers, which contained the majority of our files, crashed due to a virus. Shame on me for being lazy and not backing up on a regular basis. As a result we lost a tremendous [...]
There are a lot of books about affair recovery, healing and moving on after infidelity, but they all seem to be written for couples who want to stay together after an affair. What if that’s not the case and you decide that you must end your relationship, and move on? Or maybe you have already [...]
In the past we have written about the some of our neighbors who have experienced infidelity in their lives as well as my brother’s situation, and as a result of a neighborhood block party and some time talking with my mother, we were inundated with news of cheaters beginning their new lives with their affair [...]
I hope that the title of this post didn’t alarm any of our readers. Linda and I are not getting a divorce – far from it – but her brother is. In fact it should be final at the beginning of next month. For our newer readers who may not know, Linda’s brother, Jeff, had [...]
We receive many emails from readers, and recently we received one that really struck a chord with us. This reader shares her touching story of immense pain as the result of infidelity, as well as her hopeful view of the future and her decision to seek happiness and love no matter what. I personally was [...]
You may have noticed that Linda and I have been basically absent from the blog since Thursday. We barely had enough time to approve the comments and virtually no time to reply to any them. We apologize for that but we had a whirlwind of an extended weekend that has left both of us [...]
I had a great Mother’s day…well, at least for the first four hours or so, and then it went downhill from there. As usual, Doug and the kids made my day special, but they were no match for what awaited me when we went to my parent’s home for dinner. My brother and his [...]
We seem to be exposed to an exorbitant amount of divorces lately. Several neighbors, friends and even relatives have fallen victim, and in most cases it is crystal clear that infidelity has been the major culprit. In addition, we have received a few emails of late where readers have thanked us for what we do, [...]
Since today is Valentines Day, a day meant for love and lovers, we naturally wanted to write something about love. But to those who are trying to recover from an affair, Valentines Day can be a very tough day indeed. Therefore, we wanted to share a passage from Mort Fertel’s book, “Marriage Fitness,” that addresses [...]
