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.

1040 Resources
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Video icon Q&A How Do I Balance Guarding My Heart with Building Intimacy in EMS Online When My Mate Is Still Engaging His Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Safely and Respectfully Navigate Reconciliation, and Re-Integration to the Home, While Separated?
Video icon Q&A What Does the Betrayed Spouse Do When the Betrayer Just Won’t End the Affair and Shows Signs of Limerence?
Video icon Q&A Is It Alright for Me Not to Confront My Husband about Breaching the Contract?
Video icon Q&A What More Can I Do to Become Safe for Her and Rebuild Our Relationship?
Video icon Q&A Am I Wrong to Demand Him to Quit His Job for My Own Healing?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Remain Supportive and Loving While Also Protecting Myself?
Video icon Q&A Am I Wrong for Wanting to Know My Husband's Yellow-Light Behaviors?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Get My Husband to Understand the Importance of Boundaries?
Video icon Q&A Is It Appropriate to Abstain from Sex until Safety and Emotional Intimacy Have Been Established?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Get My Wife to Stop Seeing Her Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Wife Feel Safe Again?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Deal with Constant Relapse?
Video icon Q&A Should I Even Consider Staying or Working on the Marriage?
Video icon Q&A Should He Leave His Job?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Discern If or When It's Safe to Trust Him Again?
Video icon Q&A What Should I Do as the Wayward Spouse When My Spouse Has a Breakdown?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Safely Co-Parent with the Affair Partner When a Child Is Born as a Result of the Affair?
Video icon Q&A How Does One Determine What Not to Share with Their Spouse While Remaining Open and Honest?
Video icon Q&A Am I Wrong to Ask Her to Stop Social Media Use?
Video icon Q&A What Does Moving Forward a Year Later Look Like?
Video icon Q&A Should My Husband Find Another Job to Protect Himself from Relapse?
Video icon Q&A What Factors Are Important When Deciding If the Wayward Spouse Needs to Leave a Job to Distance from the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A My Wife Is Considering a Revenge Affair. What Should I Do?
Video icon Q&A When Is It Appropriate to Communicate to My Spouse That Their Behavior Is Not Acceptable?
Video icon Q&A Am I Overreacting or Is My Husband Not Taking Responsibility?
Video icon Q&A My Husband Became a Bitter Person, What Should I Do?
Video icon Q&A Is My Husband's Behavior Abusive?
Video icon Q&A How Am I Supposed to Address This Barrier More Than I Already Have?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Handle My Wayward Wife's Friendships?
Video icon Q&A What Would You Advise Regarding My Living Situation?
Video icon Q&A How Should We React to Insensitivity?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Feel Safe Again?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Create Safety for Myself When My Vulnerability Was Abused?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Betrayed Spouse Get past the Anger?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Feel Safe When There Is No Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Should We Separate If My Mate Is Still Unsafe?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Rebuild Trust with Someone Who Is Constantly Keeping Secrets and Lying?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Rebuild Trust with Someone Who Is Constantly Keeping Secrets and Lying?
Video icon Q&A Am I Letting Myself Be Abused Again?
Video icon Q&A Is it Safe to Stay?
Video icon Q&A What Can I Tell Him to Do for Me If I Can’t Trust Anything He Says or Does?
Video icon Q&A At What Point Does a Serious Case of Narcissism in the Unfaithful Need to Be Considered Unsafe for the Betrayed Spouse to Even Consider Reconciliation?
Video icon Q&A Am I Being Unreasonable in My Demand?
Video icon Q&A What Are You Thoughts on Entering Into a Contract on a New Home Early in Recovery?
Video icon Q&A What Happens If a Husband and Wife Differ on What Constitutes Out of Line Behavior?
Video icon Q&A What Do I Do When My Husband Won't Stick to the Agreement?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Move Forward with This Feeling That I'm Not Safe?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Build Trust When I Don't Quite Feel Safe Yet?
Video icon Q&A Can You Help Me Understand My Ex-husband's Motive?