Fidelity
The Reasons Cheaters Cheat
Unfortunately, there is not one simple answer that addresses why all
people who get involved in affairs do so. People are complex and
engage in infidelity for different reasons
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Eight
Heart-Wrenching Emotions You Will Face
Almost everyone faces these eight emotions when they find out about
an affair. If you think you aren’t feeling one of them, I encourage
you to look very closely at yourself and make sure it isn’t
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How To Cope With The
Initial Shock Of An Affair
When you learn that the person you built your life around was
unfaithful to you, the sense of betrayal can be almost unbearable.
In a single moment, you are ripped from a life you have counted on
and felt safe in.
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Rebuild
The Trust You Have Destroyed
Ultimately, all of the work we have done adds up to putting yourself
in a position to regain your partner’s trust. At times this might
seem impossible. Remember Margaret’s fear that she would never
regain David’s trust?
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The Three
Phases to Recovering from Infidelity
When people are affected by infidelity, their first instincts are to
look for reasons that the affairs happened. They want to know the
details of the affairs. They want to know why their loved ones did
what they did. They want to know if they will ever be able to trust
their partners again.
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Deciding if you should forgive or not may be easier after reviewing
exactly what forgiveness is
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Just because you and your spouse pledged to love and nurture each
other through all your days, doesn't guarantee that your marriage
will remain vital and
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As our marriage relationship evolves through time, there may be a
few bumps in the road that lead us to question whether or not our
husband is having an affair...
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There’s no way to absolutely guarantee
that your marriage won’t be blindsided by an affair on your part or
your spouse’s, but there are definite steps you can take to greatly
reduce...
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Ask someone why they had, or are having an affair and you may
hear something like this: I have a lousy marriage. My marriage is
dead. There is no intimacy, no sex, and no...
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Hearing that your cheating spouse is “in love” with
someone else is devastating. I hear often, “I can handle her having
sex with someone else. I think I can live with that. But, for her
to...
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Megan contacted me for counseling because she had
just found out that her husband, Jim, was having an affair. Although
she was feeling hurt and angry, she didn’t feel justified...
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Recent statistics suggest that 40% of women (and that
number is increasing) and 60% of men at one point indulge in
extramarital affairs. Put those numbers together and it is...
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No one gets through life without being hurt by
another person. We all have experienced the pain of a thoughtless
remark, gossip, or lie. If you have experienced an unhappy
marriage...
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Good people in good marriages-men and women who say
they are happily married-are unwittingly forming deep, passionate
connections before realizing that...
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Forgiveness toward others is the natural outcome of
forgiving ourselves and of taking loving care of ourselves. When we
judge ourselves, we will have a tendency to...
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