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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It’s the time of year for good cheer, and one aspect of that cheer is the office Christmas party. Apparently, these parties are quite a popular time for workplace infidelity to occur. I’m almost certain that the two biggest reasons for this are the presence of alcohol and the absence of the cheater’s spouse at [...]
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 [...]
In our discussion yesterday, we mentioned that one source stated that the reason why men and women cheat boils down to two primary factors: Because of problems in their relationship and for reasons that are deep within our human nature. A recent study conducted by Robin Milhausen and Kristen Mark at the University of Guelph [...]
We picked up a book that was recommended by one of our readers just last week: “How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It” by Patricia Love, Ed.D., and Steven Stosny, Ph.D. It’s a very nice read, by the way, and centers around the premise that love is NOT about better communication, but it’s [...]
Since Doug’s emotional affair I find myself constantly studying and clueing into the people and their interactions. Whenever we are at a public place, restaurant, concert, bar, etc., or even at my school, I observe the behaviors of both males and females. Before Doug’s emotional affair I really wouldn’t have paid much attention to other [...]
As many of you know, last week we were down in Orlando for a national dance competition that our daughters were participating in. After a few days we then traveled further south to stay for a few days at the beach. We appreciate your patience while we were gone as our condo at the beach [...]
After a recommendation from someone on the blog I decided to read “The Emotionally Unavailable Man” by Patti Henry. I guess the last week or so has been “emotionally unavailable” week at our house, as two books that we ordered on the subject both arrived at the same time (the other being “Emotional Unavailability”).
A reader recently recommended a book entitled, “Emotional Unavailability” by Bryn C. Collins, M.A., L.P. and we thought we would grab a copy of the book to see if there was any enlightening information within that could be helpful to others. Emotional unavailability is defined simply enough as the “inability of a person to [...]
Last week Linda wrote a post about the stupid things she did during my emotional affair. The post brought some great responses from you guys, some of which were even humorous. In fact, the comments got me thinking that maybe a post about stupid things a cheater does in an affair might be a [...]
Recently on this blog, we have been discussing the perceptions of the other person from both the eyes of the cheating spouse, and from the eyes of the betrayed spouse. One person suggested that it would be interesting to delve into the common traits that are found in those individuals that have marital affairs. I [...]
