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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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 [...]
Our open discussion yesterday centered around the topic of self-esteem. There were some very heart-felt responses in the comment section from both the cheating spouse and the victim of marital affairs. We also received many emails along the same lines. It became very apparent that not only do the victims take a massive blow to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The whole process of healing from infidelity is meant to help you analyze the vulnerabilities that existed in your marriage before the affair and develop a strategy to repair or eliminate those vulnerabilities and then emerge from the process with a strong and happy marriage. Rebuilding the marriage can often take quite awhile to do [...]
Quite coincidentally, we received an email yesterday from one of our readers who had some words to share regarding marital infidelity as an addiction. After getting her permission, we thought it would be an interesting and thought provoking piece to post.
Compared to many people that have shared their opinions on affairs, she has somewhat of [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Many of our recent comments from readers have centered on the problem that their spouses are still in contact with their affair partner, and apparently unwilling to stop. As we have mentioned many times, healing after infidelity cannot occur until all contact has ceased. I can recall firsthand how difficult it was for Doug [...]
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