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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Yesterday I took the day off because Doug and I had doctor’s appointments. Since both of us are now 50 years old, we thought it was time for us each to have a physical. Since our appointments weren’t until later in the day and the kids were in school, we were able to spend a [...]
Since today is Thanksgiving here in the US we are taking the day off to be with family and to stuff our faces. We still wanted to give you all something to ponder though. We actually posted the same poem below last year and would like to hear from you regarding the things that you [...]
There are a zillion articles out there on the Internet that try to sum up how to regain trust in a marriage after infidelity as if it were just a matter of following “5 Easy Steps.” Most of them are written by either a therapist or some other person that has never experienced infidelity in [...]
Here are the results of the survey we published last week. I can’t really say that there were any Earth-shattering surprises, though I still feel that the results are interesting and we can possibly make some further assumptions or takeaways from the results. We’d be interested in hearing any comments you might have regarding the [...]
I saw this article recently by relationship expert and author Bree Maresca-Kramer M.A, and I felt many of us could relate to it and that it might offer some good information for those of us trying to regain self-esteem and recover from infidelity. It deals with the challenge from a female point of view, but [...]
We have blogged a few times about what the cheater needs to do to help with healing after an affair, and the book “How to Help Your Spouse Heal From Your Affair” by Linda J. MacDonald, M.S., LMFT has been recommended by readers in the past as well.
Last Thursday I wrote a post about how I still felt the pain from the thoughts of why Doug really decided to stay in our marriage. Today I wanted to follow up on that a bit and share with you some wonderful information from one of our favorite authors, Dave Carder. Dave is the author [...]
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 [...]
For the last two weeks there has been a perfect storm of sorts brewing in our household. A perfect storm of emotions for Linda, that is. Monday night that storm finally hit and all hell broke loose. It was like we went back in time three years to when I was involved in my emotional [...]
If any of you are teachers out there, you probably know that the first week of school can be quite stressful. Since that was the case with Linda, we decided to end the first week by going out to happy hour at a local bar along with several of Linda’s fellow teachers. It seems they [...]
