I had discussed my last therapy session in a previous post and during that session the therapist and I also explored the implications of taking fault for the affair. He really helped me realize that I shouldn’t blame myself for Doug’s emotional affair, and by doing so for so long has definitely caused many problems [...]
Happy Wednesday! I must admit that I had a tough time coming up with a topic for our discussion this week. Perhaps my brain is still mush from the extra long weekend. So to kick-start my thinking I looked back on some comments and emails that we’ve received and noticed that there are a lot [...]
Someone asked me yesterday if I have forgiven the other person (Tanya), and whether or not I have forgiven Doug. Being asked about forgiving infidelity, specifically about forgiving Tanya, made me sit back and think for a little bit. I began to wonder if that was something I should do as part of my emotional [...]
Good Morning America has profiled a couple for the last 2 days who are trying to survive an affair by taking a look inside a therapy session with them together. The husband met a woman online and ended up having an affair with her. They do not say whether it was a physical affair or [...]
Hello everyone! If your spouse says they no longer love you, and you feel more like enemies than friends, what chance is there for turning the relationship around and restoring the love? (Dr. Frank Gunzburg say’s the love may NOT really be dead.) Our discussion for this week centers on these questions…What if your spouse [...]
Somebody sent us this letter via email over the weekend and we felt that it was pretty powerful stuff. It is from a woman who is apparently working hard at surviving an affair – her own – as well as the backlash of emotions and painful feelings felt by her husband as a result. What [...]
Doug had some minor surgery done yesterday, so I took the day off to be with him. After we returned home, Doug decided to take a nap as he was feeling tired from the procedure. While he was asleep I started to delve into “How to Survive an Affair” again, and decided to re-read the [...]
If your spouse cheated on you, it’s a natural urge for most people to explode (usually verbally, but in many cases physically), especially in the very early stages immediately after you find out about the affair. This anger can be useful to the injured person, but there comes a time when expressing your angry feelings [...]
We received an email from one of our blog readers who asked us to share a letter that her daughter wrote to her husband. The letter shows the effects that an affair has on the children of those involved. Cheating spouses don’t always realize (or don’t care) what their actions do to the psyche of [...]
There has been a lot of discussion lately about whether a cheating spouse should confess their marital affair to his/her partner. There are basically two schools of thought on this—Yes or No. And to be honest, there are valid arguments that exist for both schools of thought. We’re not going to come right out and [...]
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Infidelity causes intense emotional pain--anger, disbelief, fear, guilt and shame. But an affair doesn't have to mean the end of your marriage.
