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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Saturday night was our annual neighborhood hog roast and block party. It’s a chance to chat with neighbors both old and new, while drinking too much booze, and eating way too much food. Since we have lived in our house for twenty years, we have experienced many of these parties and have witnessed the [...]
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 [...]
Another major thing that we did this past weekend was see our son off to college — away from home — for the first time. I know that Doug is probably feeling the effects of our son leaving more than I, because now he is the only male left in the house. In addition to [...]
Michele Weiner-Davis has authored two books that I highly recommend: “ The Divorce Remedy” and “Divorce Busting.” Unfortunately, I found these books a little later than I would have liked, which was after months of trying to get Doug to let go of his emotional affair. However, the contents of each book gave me hope [...]
Yesterday I was re-reading some of Dr. Frank Gunzburg’s book about how to save your marriage by keeping danger out and love within. I got to thinking about what Linda and I have done to not only save our marriage, but effectively keeping our love alive and growing our relationship on a regular basis.
One of [...]
Most of us who are married come to the point in our relationship where the excitement and satisfaction levels drop off considerably from earlier times in our marriage. It could because of the kids, work or some other aspect of everyday life. It is at these low-satisfaction levels that affairs can occur. I’ve been re-reading [...]
After yesterday’s discussion topic I started to think more about why I just didn’t give up and leave after the affair. Initially I stayed because of fear. I didn’t know what I was going to do, where I was to go and what would happen to our children. This situation was something that [...]
Hello everyone! The open discussion feature has been quite popular, though last week the comments were somewhat down. I guess you can’t have a winner every time!
This week the discussion was suggested by one of our readers and is: “What are you willing to do, or unwilling to do, to save your marriage [...]
As I was reading the responses to last week’s open discussion on how some of you reacted when you found out about your spouse’s affair, was in some ways very comforting and in other ways it was upsetting to me. It was comforting in that I realized I was not alone. Everyone appeared [...]
We have been receiving many requests to review books and programs as this site gains in popularity, and one of those that has come across our desk is from Mort Fertel and his Marriage Fitness program.
Mort Fertel is an authority on the psychology of relationships and has an international reputation for saving marriages. He has [...]
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