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 Bedside Forgiveness: When Death Coincides With Infidelity How Could You? Part IV - Doublespeak and Distorted Comparisons Why Did My Spouse Cheat? A Crucial Question In Healing After An Affair Surviving Infidelity Part 1: What Do You Need to Know? Untransformed Pain will be Transmitted Infidelity Counseling: How Effective Is It? Rebuilding Trust After An Affair Surviving Infidelity: What Do We Tell the Kids? Discovery: Part 1 - How to Handle Discovery Healing After an Affair: How do I Address Unmanageability? 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Healing After An Affair Ending an Affair - Step One: Make the Decision How to Survive Infidelity The Problem with Forgiveness Pimping Tenderness & Grooming Behaviors 20 Most Common Mistakes of the Hurt Spouse 1063 Resources Type Title Posted Q&A How Can My Spouse Work with the Affair Partner and Still Be Okay? 12/06/2022 How to survive an affair – How much should I share with my spouse? 11/15/2022 Q&A Any Advice on How, When & Where It’s Best to Share Our Story? 11/03/2022 Q&A Am I Struggling Because I Still Feel Unsafe in Recovery? 10/13/2022 The True Definition of Love and Its Role In Surviving An Affair 9/14/2022 Q&A Is This an Appropriate Deal-Breaker? 8/26/2022 Q&A How Do I Keep My Boundaries Strong in a Place of Leadership? 7/07/2022 Q&A What Are the Signs I Should Run and Not Bother Wasting My Time or Emotions on Trying to Make My Marriage Work? 7/01/2022 Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 4 - Not Grieving the Loss 6/15/2022 Q&A How Do I Respond to the Betrayed’s Triggers When It’s Affecting My Mental Health Now? 6/14/2022 Q&A What Do I Do If My Spouse Works with Their Affair Partner? 5/24/2022 Q&A How Do You Make Your Partner Feel Understood, Trusted, like They Matter, and That It’s Ok to Make Mistakes, Without Enabling Bad Behavior? 5/24/2022 Are You Vulnerable to an Affair? Part II: Marital Vulnerability 5/18/2022 Q&A How Do I Continue Supporting Her While Taking Care of My Heart and Mental Health? 4/20/2022 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 How Should I Handle My Spouse Threatening to Harm Me? 3/10/2022 Q&A How Should I as a Wayward Spouse Approach My Spouse’s Continual Desire for Reassurance? 3/10/2022 Q&A How Do I Emotionally Connect with Someone Who Treats Me This Way? 3/10/2022 Q&A How Long Should I Accept and Validate His Exaggerated Reactions as a Result of My Previously Reckless Behaviors? 2/17/2022 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 Q&A How Can We Set Boundaries If They Keep Being Disregarded and Violated? 12/17/2021 Q&A How Much Should I Allow My Hurt Spouse to Vent and Control Conversations? 11/19/2021 Q&A How Do I Deal With This When I Cannot Reasonably Ask Her to Quit Working nor Can I Check In Frequently to Make Sure It's Not Happening Again? 8/17/2021 Q&A How Do I Handle Other Counselor’s ‘Okaying’ My Husband’s Continuation of His Rock-Concert Gigs? 8/17/2021 Q&A Should I Tell the Affair Partner’s Wife about the Affair? 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 Is Location-Sharing and Access to Phones Recommended? 7/13/2021 Q&A How Can I Stop the Feeling That I Constantly Need to Check on My Wayward Spouse for Safety? 7/13/2021 Q&A How Best Do I Ask for This Information So That He Understands the Level of Transparency I Need to Feel Safe? 7/13/2021 Q&A How Do I Deal With the Physical Distance between Me and My Husband during Recovery? 7/13/2021 Q&A When My Mate Floods, Why Do I Get Distressed In Turn? 7/08/2021 Q&A What Are the Best Boundaries to Make When My Husband and I Are Having a Discussion about My Healing and He Starts to Get Really Angry? 6/16/2021 Q&A Should I Be Considering Any Restrictions on Her Access to Our Children If She Continues to Act Out? 6/16/2021 Q&A How Do I Create a Safe Boundary for Myself While Showing Him Grace and Not Reject His Desire to Open up to Me and Reconnect? 6/16/2021 Q&A Are There Any Tips on How to Handle Someone Who Is Not Displaying Remorse, Is Full Of Anger and Pain, And Deeply Depressed? 6/16/2021 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 Q&A How Do I Love Her through Her Controlling Issues While Still Maintaining My Sanity? 5/25/2021 Q&A Is It Wrong to Expect My Husband to Stop Contact with an Affair Partner Who Is Close to the Family and My Best Friend? 5/12/2021 Q&A What Are Your Thoughts about a Post Infidelity Contract? 4/29/2021 Q&A How on Earth Do I Enforce Boundaries during This Time without Pushing Her Back to the Affair Partner? 4/29/2021 Q&A How Do I Cast Down My Thoughts of Beating Up My Wife’s Affair Partner? 4/29/2021 Q&A Is It Better to Ignore Him When He Is Trying to Reach Out and Connect or Should I Respond in Kind to Try to Maintain the Peace? 4/29/2021 Q&A How Does the Addition of Domestic Violence Influence Affair Recovery? 4/29/2021 Q&A Is He ‘Cured’ and Am I Now Safe? 4/13/2021 Travel Plan: How to Create One and Why They're Worthwhile 3/31/2021 Q&A How Do I Balance Guarding My Heart with Building Intimacy in EMS Online When My Mate Is Still Engaging His Affair Partner? 3/25/2021 Q&A How Do We Safely and Respectfully Navigate Reconciliation, and Re-Integration to the Home, While Separated? 3/22/2021 Pages« first‹ previous123456789…next ›last »