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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Video icon Q&A How Do I Stop the Cycle of Self-Sabotage and Regain My Identity?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help the Betrayed Overcome Comparison With the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A Will Finding Alternative Ways to Meet Needs for Connection Reduce My Perceived 'Need' for Sex?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Repair The Damage I Caused from Trickle-Truth?
Video icon Q&A Do you Think It Is Fair To Focus on The Betrayed's Behaviors After D-Day?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Resolve the Conflict Between My Betrayed Husband and My Parents?
Video icon Q&A How Can the Wayward Stay Safe around the Betrayed’s Pain?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Move Forward from Here?
Video icon Q&A Does the Wayward Spouse Need Time to Mourn the Loss of the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Address and Heal from My Husband’s past Betrayal in Light of My Recent Infidelity?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Prove to My Betrayed Spouse That I Finally ‘Get It’?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Talk About My Stupidity in a Redemptive Way, While I’m Still Struggling Through My Heart Change?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Move past This Set-Back in Our Recovery?
Video icon Q&A Do You Suggest He Focus On Healing Himself First, Then Our Marriage?
Video icon Q&A Is There a Way to Reconnect or Get Him to Engage Before Throwing 35 Years Away?
Video icon Q&A When Will the Abusive Language and Name-Calling from the Betrayed Spouse Stop?
Video icon Q&A When Will My Efforts Be Enough for My Spouse?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Best Deal With This Hurtful Possibility and Begin to Heal from It?
Video icon Q&A Who Falls in True Love with an Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Much of This Developmental Trauma Contributed to Me Having an Affair in Adulthood?
Video icon Q&A Can the Wayward Spouse Really Have No Triggers?
Video icon Q&A Is the Connection I Have with My First Love (Not My Husband) Normal?
Video icon Q&A Is My Spouse Trying to Punish Me for What I’ve Done?
Video icon Q&A My Betrayed Partner Says They’re Only in EMS Online So They Can Say ‘They Tried’. What Do I Do?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Heal From the Shame I’m Feeling as a Result of My Affair?
Video icon Q&A What Else Can I Do to Help Facilitate the Healing Process for My Betrayed Spouse and Myself?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Mate Get back the Dignity and Self-Worth I Took From Her With My Betrayal?
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 Do I Have to Take a Polygraph?
Video icon Q&A Should I Risk Provoking My Affair Partner if It Makes My Mate Feel Better?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Reconnect Intimately With My Betrayed Husband Now Knowing That He Is Dealing with His Own Temptations?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Respond When the Betrayed Ridicules, Shames, and Slanders Me for What I Have Done?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Do Everything Right at Every Moment for My Wife?
Video icon Q&A Why Should I Stay With My Current Wife When I Really Want to Be With My Ex-Wife?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Wife Feel Safe When She Is Triggered?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Communicate Love, Compassion, and Empathy during the Discovery Process or Questioning?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Deal With My Sexual Addiction When Everything I’ve Tried Isn’t Working?
Video icon Q&A Do I Have the Right to Know What My Spouse Is Doing to Monitor Me?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Show Empathy Towards My Wife after Her Revenge Affair When She Refuses to Give Full Disclosure?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Continue to Be Empathetic to Her If in Spite of All I Do, It Is Still Not Enough?
Video icon 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?
Video icon Q&A How Did ADHD and Other Factors Like Depression and Anxiety Contribute to My Affairs?
Video icon Q&A Why Do I Still Respond Physically like I Am Lying When I’m Telling the Truth?
Video icon Q&A Are Any Lasting Feelings for the Affair Partner Permitted?
Video icon Q&A I’m Losing Compassion for My Mate. What Can I Do?
Video icon Q&A How Do You Recommend I Write My Closure Letter to the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A Do We Have a Chance at Recovery If He Is Unable to Understand How Trauma Can Impact Me?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Approach This Polygraph without Feeling like My Marriage Is on the Line?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Convince My Mate That I’m Not Talking to the Affair Partner?