Affair Recovery

In today's video, Samuel shares his own stories of him changing personally before the overall situation changed between he and Samantha while they were recovering from his infidelity.

For a variety of reasons after D-day I became disconnected with my family. In a way it surprises me. After all, I come from a family of betrayers and betrayed. I have three siblings. Two have been both unfaithful and betrayed and one has been betrayed. I have been betrayed. Four for four. Our parents were both unfaithful and betrayed in multiple marriages. That’s six for six.

My husband, unfaithful, has one brother, unfaithful, and one sister, betrayed. That’s nine for nine. I believe his parents were both faithful (his father died before the age of 40 but his mom appears to have had a solid second marriage. But...

How do you know what's right or wrong in recovery after an affair? Samuel shares in this video, how to find a compass in recovery to make sure both spouses are doing what is right.

Samuel discusses more of his own personal story and trying to run from the dysfunction and how it affected Samantha as they worked to recover from his affair and infidelity in their marriage.

Today Samuel discusses a critical step in recovery after an affair...saving yourself.

Today Samuel shares in his video, four key components to recovery which are essential to long term healing after an affair.

Samuel shares a new vlog on understanding the mindset of an unfaithful spouse who is stuck between their affair partner and their spouse.

Marriage vows. Promises you make at your wedding ceremony as you commit your life to your mate. You can write your own, heartfelt vows or go the traditional route. On a day full of optimism and hope the marriage vows cement two lives into one. My wedding day was years in the making. I was finally marrying the man I had fallen in love with in high school. We had already been through what I considered at that time the worse that life could throw at us. It had taken us eleven years to reach the marriage altar and promise our lives to each other. We were on the home stretch! Yes, my vows had meaning for me,...

Samuel discusses the topic of rushing through recovery after an affair and how we may find ourselves missing some important steps.

Samuel shares a jarring story of financial ruin while going through recovery from infidelity and the tools he and Samantha developed.

Samuel offers hope in this video from his own story on how to make it through a difficult day in recovery from an affair and infidelity.

When my husband’s affairs were discovered just over two years ago I had all the predictable emotions; anger, confusion, agony, and so much more. Eleven days later when we decided to work on our marriage I still had those emotions but now I had fear:

What if I let him come back home and he cheated again? What if I couldn’t “get over it”? What if I was wasting my time and energy on a failed attempt at reconciliation?

On the one hand, I felt as if it was necessary for me to try and save our marriage for many reasons:

We had almost 25 years together. He deserved a second chance. I wanted to...

In today's video, Samuel discusses resistance to recovery work after an affair and how to address the raw trauma of infidelity.

Two years since d-day. I can’t believe it! When my husband’s affairs were discovered I didn’t think I would survive that first day. The minutes were agonizing. Time slowed to a crawl. I was reduced to pure, raw emotion. There was no existence without pain. I wished I would die. I knew I would die. My heart was shattered and it would kill me.

Over the next few days I was in a fog. I took one day off work but that was all I could afford. When I wasn’t crying I would sit and stare. I worked by rote. Zombie. Barely functioning. My emotions were all over the place. I was furious, full of hatred,...