Safety in Recovery The hallmark of any healthy recovery is safety. Both spouses have to feel safe in order to rebuild a strong, new marriage from the ashes of the old one. Learn how to make your mate feel safe and why it is so important that you do. Must Reads more less Ending an Affair - Step One: Make the Decision Surviving Infidelity: What Do We Tell the Kids? Untransformed Pain will be Transmitted Social Shame: Understanding the Paralysis of it Bedside Forgiveness: When Death Coincides With Infidelity Infidelity Counseling: How Effective Is It? Why Did My Spouse Cheat? A Crucial Question In Healing After An Affair Ending an Affair: Lock the Door Part 1 Healing After an Affair: How do I Address Unmanageability? How Could You? Part I: Why We Commit Betrayal With Infidelity 20 Most Common Mistakes of the Unfaithful Spouse Coping with Infidelity: The 2 Stages of Pain How to Survive Infidelity 31 Reasons to Stop an Affair: Part 1 Affair Recovery Timeline for Healing After Betrayal Does Time Heal All Wounds? Healing After An Affair Rebuilding Trust After An Affair The Power of Small Groups Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 1 - Not Knowing What Happened Surviving Infidelity: The #1 Challenge to Recovery Dealing with Infidelity: How to Get You Mate to Cooperate (Without Being Controlling) The Problem with Forgiveness Why People Cheat: The Fog of Self-Deception (Part 1) How Could You? Part IV - Doublespeak and Distorted Comparisons Pimping Tenderness & Grooming Behaviors The Seven Mistakes Churches Make When Dealing With Infidelity 20 Most Common Mistakes of the Hurt Spouse Surviving Infidelity Part 1: What Do You Need to Know? Discovery: Part 1 - How to Handle Discovery How Long Does It Take to Recover From An Affair? 1063 Resources Type Title Posted Mistakes Families Make After an Affair 11/13/2024 Q&A How Do I Respond If I Don’t Believe My Spouse? 11/12/2024 Was the Sex So Much Better in Their Affair? 11/06/2024 Q&A How Do I Support My Partner and Accept That I Can’t Control Their Recovery Journey? 10/30/2024 Are They Thinking About the Other Person? 10/09/2024 Is My Spouse a Narcissist? 10/02/2024 Q&A Am I a Fool for Being Vulnerable With My Mate? 10/01/2024 How to Get Your Mate to Cooperate 9/25/2024 Q&A How Do I Get the Lying and the Porn Use by My Husband to Stop? 9/18/2024 The Process of Healing from Infidelity 8/07/2024 Q&A How Can I Get My Wife to Understand That Abuse Towards Men Is Equal to Abuse Towards Women? 7/31/2024 Q&A How Can I Help My Wayward Spouse Heal From Betrayal Trauma From a Prior Relationship? 7/31/2024 Q&A Am I Asking for Too Much Control or Is the Wayward Spouse Being Unreasonable With a Lack of Boundaries? 7/10/2024 Q&A Do I Need to Allow the Wayward Spouse to Have More Time in the Recovery Process? 7/10/2024 Romanticism: Don't Believe the Lie 7/03/2024 Q&A How Do I Respond When the Betrayed Ridicules, Shames, and Slanders Me for What I Have Done? 6/13/2024 Help With Incessant Triggers and Reminders 5/29/2024 Betrayal Trauma: Tips for Talking with Your Spouse 5/22/2024 Signs There Could Be Abusive Behaviors in Your Relationship 5/08/2024 Q&A How Do I Know When My Husband is Safe Again? 5/07/2024 Q&A How Do I Do Everything Right at Every Moment for My Wife? 4/25/2024 Q&A Should My Husband Keep His Mother in His Life Given That She Actively Facilitated and Supported His Actions? 4/25/2024 The Affair Causing Habit 4/17/2024 Psychological Abuse Within Infidelity 3/20/2024 Q&A How Do I Tell My Unfaithful Spouse I Need Access to His Devices to Feel Safe? 1/09/2024 Q&A How Do I Deal With My Husband’s Anger? 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 Communicate Love, Compassion, and Empathy during the Discovery Process or Questioning? 11/28/2023 Q&A How Do I Create Safety for Myself with an Addict That Is Not Seeking Out Help for Himself? 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 Surviving Infidelity: 6 Things I Wish I'd Known 10/11/2023 Q&A Is Minimal Contact the Right Thing to Do at This Moment? 9/29/2023 Q&A Do I Have the Right to Know What My Spouse Is Doing to Monitor Me? 9/12/2023 Q&A What Is the Best Way to Set Boundaries in the Workplace? 8/15/2023 Q&A Are the Boundaries My Mate Has Placed on Our Conversations a Red Flag in Recovery? 8/15/2023 Discovery: Why Do I Want to Know? 6/14/2023 Discovery: Processing the Details of the Affair 6/07/2023 Coping with Infidelity: The 2 Stages of Pain 5/31/2023 Q&A Why Do I Still Respond Physically like I Am Lying When I’m Telling the Truth? 5/19/2023 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 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 Discovery: Part 3 - Guidelines for Discovery 3/22/2023 Q&A How Do I Handle My Spouse’s Siblings? 3/17/2023 Discovery: Part 2 - Advice For The Wayward Spouse 3/15/2023 Q&A What Action Do You Recommend If My Mates Behavior Doesn’t Change? 3/02/2023 Q&A How Do I Handle My Mate Weaponizing Information That I’m Sharing with Them? 1/11/2023 Q&A Are My Boundaries for My Spouse Unreasonable? 1/11/2023 Q&A How Can We Get Anywhere If a Calm Conversation Can’t Happen about His Recovery or Betrayals? 12/06/2022 Pages123456789…next ›last »