The Role of Empathy

Empathy is often misunderstood yet always necessary in recovery. Learn to understand the function of empathy and how it can change your marriage.

268 Resources
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Video icon Q&A Does My Husband Really Have to 'Get It' to Be Safe For My Own Healing?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Set Boundaries for Myself While Staying Compassionate for My Spouses Issues?
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 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 Is There Anything the Wayward Spouse Can Say or Do That Has Been Effective in Helping the Betrayed Spouse Feel Better?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Prove to My Betrayed Spouse That I Finally ‘Get It’?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Find a Way to Show Compassion or Empathy When I Find Myself Empty of It in the Moment?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Best Deal With This Hurtful Possibility and Begin to Heal from It?
Video icon Q&A What Do You Do If the Wayward Spouse Shows No Remorse, Empathy, or Compassion?
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 What Do I Do When My Wayward Spouse Refuses to Meet My Emotional Needs?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Wayward Spouse Heal From Betrayal Trauma From a Prior Relationship?
Video icon Q&A What Is the Best Way to Build Trust Around My Husband’s Actions and My Triggers?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Do Everything Right at Every Moment for My Wife?
Video icon Q&A Where Can I Find Help for My Mate’s Cognitive Issues Surrounding the Lessons and My Grief?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Wife Feel Safe When She Is Triggered?
Video icon Q&A Is It Possible for Him to Rebuild Real Empathy and Actually Care about Me Again?
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’m Losing Compassion for My Mate. What Can I Do?
Video icon Q&A How Can an Unfaithful Spouse Develop Emotional Intelligence?
Video icon Q&A How Long Are You Suppose to Wait for Unfaithful to Take Responsibility and Have Empathy?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Continue Supporting Her While Taking Care of My Heart and Mental Health?
Video icon Q&A How Should I as a Wayward Spouse Approach My Spouse’s Continual Desire for Reassurance?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Emotionally Connect with Someone Who Treats Me This Way?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Move Forward When We Have Both Been Unfaithful?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Feel Safe When There Is No Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Where Is the Empathy for Me?
Video icon Q&A Are There Questions That Would Make the Empathy Exercise More Productive and Healing?
Video icon Q&A What Is Hindering My Mate from Showing Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Can You Help Me Understand Why My Mate Won't Make Amends?
Video icon Q&A Why Is My Spouse Causing This Pain Instead of Showing Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Can You Help My Understand Why the Empathy Exercises Have Been so Difficult for My Mate?
Video icon Q&A Will I Ever Fully Understand My Mate's Pain?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Show My Wife I Get It?
Video icon Q&A Can Minimizing Childhood Trauma Affect the Ability to Take Responsibility and Show Empathy during Recovery?
Video icon Q&A Why Is My Spouse Having a Difficult Time with Empathy When I'm Hurting?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Spouse Overcome Shame and Humiliation?
Video icon Q&A Is There a Difference between Just Getting over What Happened and Forgiveness?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Shift the Focus off My Mistakes and onto Healing?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Convince My Wife I Love Her and Only Her?
Video icon Q&A What Happens If I'm Not Seeing Remorse?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Show Empathy without Getting Defensive?
Video icon Q&A Why Isn't My Wayward Spouse Pursuing Me?
Video icon Q&A How Do You Address Your Wounds While at the Same Time Feeling Remorse for Your Mate?
Video icon Q&A Why Am I Struggling with Compassion and Understanding?
Video icon Q&A Should I Try to Make Amends for My Part in the Failed Recovery?