For the Unfaithful Spouse
Recovery for the unfaithful spouse requires much more humility and personal responsibility than that of the betrayed spouse. These articles are specifically to navigate recovery for the unfaithful spouse.
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Healing After an Affair: How do I Address Unmanageability?
Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 1 - Not Knowing What Happened
Why People Cheat: The Fog of Self-Deception (Part 1)
Dealing with Infidelity: How to Get You Mate to Cooperate (Without Being Controlling)
Ending an Affair - Step One: Make the Decision
327 Resources
Type Title Posted
Text How Can You Move Past Ambivalence After Infidelity? 7/19/2023
Text Denial and Recovery After an Affair 7/05/2023
Text Hope for Healing Excerpt: 'Is My Life Out of Control?' 6/21/2023
Video Q&A How Can I Continue to Be Empathetic to Her If in Spite of All I Do, It Is Still Not Enough? 6/16/2023
Video Q&A I Understand the Importance of Not Being Defensive about the Infidelity or Betrayal, but Does That Extend into Every Aspect of Our Lives? 6/16/2023
Video Q&A How Did ADHD and Other Factors Like Depression and Anxiety Contribute to My Affairs? 6/16/2023
Text How to Get Your Mate to Cooperate (Without Being Controlling) 5/24/2023
Video Q&A Why Do I Still Respond Physically like I Am Lying When I’m Telling the Truth? 5/19/2023
Video Q&A Are Any Lasting Feelings for the Affair Partner Permitted? 5/19/2023
Text Affair Recovery Steps: How to Live Without Fear After Infidelity 5/17/2023
Video Q&A I’m Losing Compassion for My Mate. What Can I Do? 5/02/2023
Video Q&A How Do You Recommend I Write My Closure Letter to the Affair Partner? 4/20/2023
Video Q&A Do We Have a Chance at Recovery If He Is Unable to Understand How Trauma Can Impact Me? 3/17/2023
Video Q&A How Do I Approach This Polygraph without Feeling like My Marriage Is on the Line? 3/17/2023
Text Discovery: Part 2 - Advice For The Wayward Spouse 3/15/2023
Video Q&A How Can I Convince My Mate That I’m Not Talking to the Affair Partner? 3/02/2023
Video Q&A How Do I Explain Disassociation and It’s Part in the Affair? 1/26/2023
Video Q&A How Do I Help My Husband Understand the Effects of Trauma While Also Letting Him See That It Is Not an Excuse for My Actions? 1/11/2023
Video Q&A How Do I Explain That My Childhood Trauma Triggered My Actions and Doesn’t Remove My Accountability Even If I Did Disassociate? 1/11/2023
Video Q&A What Is a Realistic Timeline for My Own Recovery with C-PTSD and Childhood Trauma and Being Able to Answer Every Specifically Detailed ‘Why'? 1/11/2023
Text Why is Trusting Again So Hard? 1/04/2023
Video Q&A How Do I Get over All of the Pain That I Have Caused? 12/06/2022
Text Pleasing Versus Loving 11/29/2022
Text The Mystery of Change 11/02/2022
Video Q&A Are My Kids Really ‘Love Children’ from My Affairs? 10/13/2022
Video Q&A How Can the Unfaithful Work through the Deception Regarding the Infidelity? 10/13/2022
Video Q&A How Can I Help My Husband Believe I’m Not Manipulating Him? 10/13/2022
Video Q&A Will I Be Able to Find My Wife Sexually Attractive Again or Have I Broken My Brain? 10/13/2022
Text The Proper Use of Boundaries - Creating Space for Healing and Change 10/05/2022
Video Q&A How Can an Unfaithful Spouse Develop Emotional Intelligence? 9/13/2022
Text Intrusive Thoughts After the Affair: How to Manage Flooding 8/17/2022
Video Q&A Is It Strange for the Unfaithful to Have Depression? 8/03/2022
Video Q&A How Do I Keep My Boundaries Strong in a Place of Leadership? 7/07/2022
Video Q&A Am I Just Playing the Victim to Reduce My Guilt? 7/01/2022
Text Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 4 - Not Grieving the Loss 6/15/2022
Video Q&A How Do I Respond to the Betrayed’s Triggers When It’s Affecting My Mental Health Now? 6/14/2022
Text Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 3 - Hiding in Denial 6/08/2022
Text Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 2 - Not Getting It 6/01/2022
Text Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 1 - Not Knowing What Happened 5/25/2022
Text Are You Vulnerable to an Affair? Part III: Individual Vulnerability 5/18/2022
Text Are You Vulnerable to an Affair? Part II: Marital Vulnerability 5/18/2022
Text Are You Vulnerable to an Affair? 5/18/2022
Video Q&A Why Can’t I Give My Spouse Full Disclosure? 4/20/2022
Video Q&A What Is the Best Way to Discuss the Questions That Most Wayward Spouses Get from the Betrayed? 4/20/2022
Video Q&A How Do We Handle Disclosure When My Infidelity Was So Long Ago and I Can’t Remember All the Details? 4/06/2022
Video Q&A How Should I as a Wayward Spouse Approach My Spouse’s Continual Desire for Reassurance? 3/10/2022
Video Q&A How Do I Emotionally Connect with Someone Who Treats Me This Way? 3/10/2022
Video Q&A How Long Does It Take for Desire for My Mate to Return after Severing Ties with My Affair Partners? 3/10/2022
Video Q&A How Long Should I Accept and Validate His Exaggerated Reactions as a Result of My Previously Reckless Behaviors? 2/17/2022
Video Q&A What Do We Do When We Both Cheated, If My Betrayal Was ‘Worse’ than His? 1/18/2022

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