14 Steps of Affair Recovery for the Betrayed Partner
14 steps of affair recovery for the betrayed spouse following a partner's infidelity, providing practical help for healing after betrayal.
When Is It Time to Stop Talking About the Affair?
Is there a time to stop talking about the affair? Consider ways to reduce conversations about a partner’s affair.
I Feel Like I’m Married to a Single Man
A woman struggles with her husband’s apparent disconnetion in their marriage after his affair.
Is It Affair Fog or Real Love?
Article & Song: Is it affair fog or real love? Can you effectively argue that point with someone who’s caught up in the feelings of limerence?
Signs of a Real Affair Confession
How can you tell if a an affair confessio is real? How can you believe someone who has betrayed you and lied to you?
Making Change That Lasts
When lasting change feels impossible, your deepest motivation holds the key.
Truth In Pieces Feels Like a Lie
Trickle truth happens when the full truth isn’t told upfront. Instead, it leaks out slowly over time. This article considers why it happens, and how it hinders affair recovery.
Penitence Without Pardon
The healing work of forgiveness is blocked when the injured partner refuses to let the offender off the hook.
Completed Forgiveness
A consideration of completed forgiveness that includes both cognitive and emotional resolutions.
Decisional Forgiveness
Can we choose to forgive even if the offender hasn’t taken responsibility or asked for forgiveness?
Bartered Forgiveness
Forgiveness offered with conditions isn’t effective because it isn’t real forgiveness.
Fake Forgiveness
An explanation of fake forgiveness: what it is and why it hinders relationship healing.
Looking For Forgiveness
Many of the clients I work with struggle with forgiveness. Forgiveness does not come easily to most of us; we have to find our way to it. This article will guide you toward the kind of forgiveness that brings freedom and new beginnings.
Does Telling the Truth Help or Harm?
Getting the truth about an affair is essential for healing, but it also becomes a source of endless agony for many who have been betrayed. So, what truth helps? What truth harms?
Don’t Tell Me It’s Not Real Love
You should avoid the "this isn't real love" debate with anyone claiming to have an emotional connection to their affair partner. Here's why..
When Does It Become Cheating?
When does your involvement in another friendship become “cheating” on your spouse?
Will These Tears Ever Stop?
One story of recovery following her husband's confession of multiple affairs, one of which resulted in pregnancy.
If Your Marriage Dies, Don't Pitch Your Tent In The Cemetery
How do you move through the grief of a lost marriage that ends in divorce?
Is The Affair Partner Better Than Me?
A betrayed wife conressed her struggle with comparing herself to the affair partner, and losing the comparison most often. Another woman posted this insightful reply.