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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When I first found out about my husband’s emotional affair, I frantically researched books and the internet on surviving infidelity, as I wanted to know what experts said about the chances of it lasting. What I found was that most resources sited only 10% of cheating spouses in affairs move on to long term relationships. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I came to another realization today about the mindset of cheating spouses. I just had a long conversation with my brother and feel that he is beginning to look at his life and relationship more realistically. One thing he said that I would like to pass on is his affair and the decisions he made [...]
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 [...]
Good Wednesday to all!
Nobody ever plans on being a victim of a marital affair, or for that matter having an affair. But it happens, and it is a terribly painful experience for those involved. Life is filled with times of transitions, times of change, times of trauma, times of death, times of crisis [...]
Dr. Robert Huizenga is a well known expert on surviving infidelity. In fact, he is referred as the “Infidelity Coach.” He recently has written a new book entitled, “The First Step in Surviving Infidelity – From Basket Case to Making Your Cheating Spouse Blink,” and we were asked to review it prior to it being [...]
I was reading some of the comments this weekend and I felt that so many of them had the same theme and many of the same problems voiced by the betrayed spouse after the affair. I also felt the same sentiment but I really couldn’t put my finger on just what it was. I [...]
There are some of you who are further along in the recovery process than others. Surviving infidelity now has become more a process of strengthening yourself and your marriage instead of dealing with the immediate aftershocks of D-day.
Dr. Willard Harley, in his book “Surviving an Affair,” has four rules of marriage that can guide a [...]
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 [...]
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