Deciding to Stay In Your Marriage: The Injured Partner
Choosing to stay is only the first step…
If you tell me it’s not fair that you should be expected to do the work when you weren’t the one who cheated, I won’t argue with you. You do, after all, have every right to leave the marriage. If you choose to stay, however, you are a necessary part of the healing process. Neither one of you can do it on your own.
In this episode, we look at what the Injured Partner must do for themselves, for the marriage. In the next episode, we’ll consider the Involved Partner.
Staying after an affair is only the beginning. Real healing requires clarity, courage, and collaboration from both partners. In this episode, Tim Tedder and Nancy Pickard explore what the Injured Partner needs for genuine healing—truth, boundaries, trauma care, forgiveness, and a meaningful role in building Marriage 2.0.
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Truth Talk Courses: Truth Talk—Asking Questions, Truth Talk—Giving Answers
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Nancy Pickard
Nancy Pickard is a Certified Relational Life Institute therapeutic coach. She works with individuals and couples. She helps couples on the brink of divorce as well as couples looking for more intimacy and communication skills. She hosts relationship skills weekend retreats. She is the author of the international bestseller, Bigger Better Braver: Conquer Your Fears, Embrace Your Courage, Transform Your Life.
In 2017, she traveled alone in Thailand and Vietnam and undertook her biggest challenge, climbing Kilimanjaro at the age of 61. Coaching others to step out of fear and into bigger versions of themselves is her passion.
She is the mother of two grown sons and an active grandmother to five grandchildren. She is an avid hiker, biker, skier, pickleball and yogi. She is passionate about her eight-year-old Australian Labradoodle, Bliss.
