For The Hurt Spouse

There are many aspects in the recovery of the betrayed spouse that will look very different from the unfaithful spouse. These articles are written specifically for healing and to provide hope and encouragement for the hurt spouse.

1216 Resources
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Video icon Q&A What Do I Look for to Know the Affair Isn’t Still Happening?
Video icon Q&A How Should I Respond When He Shares Lies with Me, Especially If I Perceive He Is Sugar-Coating the Truth?
Video icon Q&A Can I Forgive My Husband for Abandonment?
Video icon Q&A What Advice Do You Have for Journaling as a Betrayed Spouse?
Video icon Q&A Why Can’t My Husband See the Affair Partner Through a Negative Lens?
Video icon Q&A Does It Matter Who Ended the Affair?
Video icon Q&A Can the Wayward Spouse Really Have No Triggers?
Video icon Q&A Please Help Me Understand What My Reality Is as We Try to Recover from This.
Video icon Q&A How Do I Tell the Wayward Spouse I Need More Discussion to Heal and Process?
Video icon Q&A Why Has My Spouse Refused to Cut Ties with His High School Sweetheart?
Video icon Q&A Is It Unrealistic to Expect Raw Emotion from My Unfaithful Wife?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Find Closure When the Affair Partner Is a Close Family Friend?
Video icon Q&A What Do You Do If the Wayward Spouse Shows No Remorse, Empathy, or Compassion?
Video icon Q&A How Important Is Attunement When Recovering from an Affair?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Rebuild Trust When His Words Still Feel Scripted and Devoid of Genuine Empathy?
Video icon Q&A What If My Husband Doesn’t Want to Change?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Feel Safe Knowing That the Worst Pain I Have Ever Felt Could Possibly Happen Again?
Video icon Q&A Will She Ever Tell the Truth Without Being Backed Into a Corner?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Respond If I Don’t Believe My Spouse?
Video icon Q&A Could My Husband’s Actions Be Early Signs of Relapse?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Support My Partner and Accept That I Can’t Control Their Recovery Journey?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Unfaithful Husband as He Seems to Be So Buried in Shame, Self-Loathing, and a Huge Sense of Worthlessness?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Come to Terms With My New Reality as a Betrayed Spouse?
Video icon Q&A Is It Normal for Family to Feel Disappointed at Us for Staying With the Wayward Spouse?
Video icon Q&A Why Does My Husband (Wayward) Not Want to Reconnect With Me (Betrayed) Physically?
Video icon Q&A Am I a Fool for Being Vulnerable With My Mate?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get the Lying and the Porn Use by My Husband to Stop?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Feel Special Again After I Have Lost So Much Including Places That Were Just Ours?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Replace What I Feel With What I Know, if I Don’t Know What the Truth Is?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Shut Down the Intrusive Thoughts of My Husband With the Affair Partners That Have Become Erotic to Me?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Get These Images Out of My Mind and Get back to Just Being With My Husband?
Video icon Q&A Are We at the End of the Road?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get Past or Heal From the Hurtful Things My Husband Said About Me to His Affair Partners?
Video icon Q&A Would Viewing Surveillance Footage of My Husband’s Affair Be Helpful?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get over Feeling Disgust With My Partner Over Who He Chose to Have an Affair With?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Truly Know if My Wayward Spouse Has Changed?
Video icon Q&A What Do I Do When My Wayward Spouse Refuses to Meet My Emotional Needs?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Better Understand the Behaviors of My Wayward Spouse?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Wayward Spouse Heal From Betrayal Trauma From a Prior Relationship?
Video icon Q&A What Advice Do You Have for Polygraphs, Anxiety Induced False Positives, and Full Disclosure During Recovery?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Believe My Mate When They Say the Affair Is Over?
Video icon Q&A As the Betrayed, Should I Focus on Avoiding the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Reconnect if I Don’t Know What Happened?
Video icon Q&A Am I Asking for Too Much Control or Is the Wayward Spouse Being Unreasonable With a Lack of Boundaries?
Video icon Q&A Do I Need to Allow the Wayward Spouse to Have More Time in the Recovery Process?
Video icon Q&A Can You Please Address the Problem of Grieving Memories Like Childbirth Under the Shadow of an Affair?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Stop the Comparisons, Build Confidence, and Get Better at Sex Without Feeling Like I’m Trying to Be Like the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A What Is the Best Way to Build Trust Around My Husband’s Actions and My Triggers?
Video icon Q&A Is It Okay for the Unfaithful to Masturbate While I, the Betrayed, Can’t Be Intimate Right Now Because of Lack of Emotional Connection and a Lot of Hurt?
Video icon Q&A Will I Ever Accept His Reasons for the Affairs?