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The Seven Mistakes Churches Make When Dealing With Infidelity Social Shame: Understanding the Paralysis of it Pimping Tenderness & Grooming Behaviors 334 Resources Type Title Posted Ending An Affair: Throw Away the Key 3/26/2025 Q&A Why Can’t My Husband See the Affair Partner Through a Negative Lens? 2/25/2025 Q&A How Do We Create Safety When My Husband Had an Emotional Affair with a Coworker for Approximately 7 Years? 2/11/2025 Q&A Why Has My Spouse Refused to Cut Ties with His High School Sweetheart? 2/04/2025 Q&A Is the Connection I Have with My First Love (Not My Husband) Normal? 1/08/2025 How to Prevent Relapse After Infidelity 12/11/2024 Q&A How Do I Feel Safe Knowing That the Worst Pain I Have Ever Felt Could Possibly Happen Again? 12/03/2024 Q&A How Do I Respond If I Don’t Believe My Spouse? 11/12/2024 Q&A Could My Husband’s Actions Be Early Signs of Relapse? 10/30/2024 Q&A How Do I Get the Lying and the Porn Use by My Husband to Stop? 9/18/2024 Q&A Am I Asking for Too Much Control or Is the Wayward Spouse Being Unreasonable With a Lack of Boundaries? 7/10/2024 Pimping Tenderness & Grooming Behaviors 6/19/2024 Q&A How Do I Do Everything Right at Every Moment for My Wife? 4/25/2024 The Affair Causing Habit 4/17/2024 How to Survive Infidelity 3/06/2024 Q&A Is It Ok for My Husband to Meet With His Affair Partner? 1/09/2024 Q&A How Do I Tell My Unfaithful Spouse I Need Access to His Devices to Feel Safe? 1/09/2024 Q&A Can You Clarify What It Looks Like for Someone to Go into the Pre-contemplative and Contemplative Stage after a Relapse? 1/09/2024 Q&A What Is the Best Way to Keep Boundaries in a Situation Where the Affair Happens in a Tight Knit Community? 11/28/2023 Q&A How Do I Deal With My Sexual Addiction When Everything I’ve Tried Isn’t Working? 10/23/2023 Q&A Are the Requests I’m Making to Feel Safe Unreasonable? 10/23/2023 Q&A Is It Reasonable for Me to Feel Unsafe When My Wife Is around the Affair Partner without Me? 10/23/2023 Q&A Do I Have the Right to Know What My Spouse Is Doing to Monitor Me? 9/12/2023 Relapse: Why Can't You Stop? 8/23/2023 Q&A What Is the Best Way to Set Boundaries in the Workplace? 8/15/2023 Q&A Should My Husband Contact the Affair Partner to Break Things off If They Haven’t Had Contact in Almost a Year? 6/29/2023 Q&A Are Any Lasting Feelings for the Affair Partner Permitted? 5/19/2023 Q&A If There Is a Future for Our Marriage, Would You See the Journey to Be Any Different than Normal? 5/19/2023 What Is the Cost of Forgiving Infidelity? 5/10/2023 Q&A Is It Necessary for Him to Be Proactive or Should I Be Happy He’s Doing What I Ask of Him? 4/12/2023 Q&A How Do We Handle Workplace Triggers in Recovery? 4/12/2023 Discovery: Part 1 - How to Handle Discovery 3/08/2023 Q&A What Action Do You Recommend If My Mates Behavior Doesn’t Change? 3/02/2023 Q&A Are My Boundaries for My Spouse Unreasonable? 1/11/2023 Untransformed Pain will be Transmitted 12/07/2022 Q&A How Can My Spouse Work with the Affair Partner and Still Be Okay? 12/06/2022 Q&A Is It Possible for Someone to Quit Porn Cold Turkey? 12/06/2022 Q&A How Do I Keep My Boundaries Strong in a Place of Leadership? 7/07/2022 How Does My Spouse Escape the Neurochemical Process of Limerence? 6/22/2022 Q&A What Do I Do If My Spouse Works with Their Affair Partner? 5/24/2022 Q&A Is It OK for the Wayward Spouse to Keep in Touch with Affair Partners from the past That Happened Years before Us? 4/20/2022 Q&A How Do I Move Forward Knowing That He Already Has The Mindset That This Could Happen Again? 4/08/2022 Q&A How Do We Move Forward after Several Relapses? 4/06/2022 Q&A Do You Agree It’s Necessary to Re-Establish No Contact? 2/17/2022 Q&A Should a Wayward Spouse Be Allowed to Have Friends of the Opposite Gender? 2/17/2022 Why Did They Cheat? Part 4: The Problem With Addictions 11/03/2021 Q&A Is It Common for the Wayward Spouse to Go Back to the Affair Partner? 10/07/2021 Q&A Will I Ever Know If My Spouse Is No Longer Emotionally Attached to His Affair Partner? 8/17/2021 Q&A How Do My Spouse and I Get On the Same Level When It Comes to Appropriate Communication to His Affair Partner about Their Daughter? 8/02/2021 Q&A I Want Proof That His Affair Partner Has Been Contacted and Told That It Is 100% Over and He Will Never Contact Her Again. How Do I Go About This? 6/16/2021 Pages1234567next ›last »
