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.

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Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Spouse?
Video icon Q&A How Can My Mate Help Me Overcome the Loss?
Video icon Q&A How Does a Betrayed Spouse Get past the Hurtful Words Said by the Wayward Spouse?
Video icon Q&A What Does It Mean to Be a Safe Place for the Betrayed's Anger?
Video icon Q&A What If I Don’t Feel Guilty?
Video icon Q&A Should I Insist or Let It Go?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Communicate That I Understand My Mates Pain?
Video icon Q&A Why Isn’t My Mate Showing Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Is Our Marriage Doomed Because My Mate Is Unwilling to Make Amends?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Find Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Am I Shaming My Husband When I Bring up His past Behaviors?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Live with a Spouse That Is Grieving the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Mate Move past Their Resentments?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Heal When We Have Both Been Unfaithful?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Fix What I've Done?
Video icon Q&A Can Empathy Be Learned?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Both Deal with My Mates Shame?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Mate with Rejection?
Video icon Q&A How Do I State Expectations without Being Codependent?
Video icon Q&A Will My Desire for My Mate Return?
Video icon Q&A How Long Should I Wait for Consistent Honesty?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Handle my Mate’s Questions about the Affair?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Mate Create Safety in Our Recovery?
Video icon Q&A Where Is the Humility and Empathy?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Prove to My Mate I'm Telling the Truth?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Spouse Accept How Long My Affair Lasted?
Video icon Q&A What Does It Look like for the Wayward Spouse to Help the Injured Spouse through Recovery?
Video icon Q&A Will My Husband Ever 'Get It'?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Communicate That It Was Shame That Caused Me to Hide?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Communicate to My Wife That I Wasn't ‘Using’ Her during the Affair?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Move past Resentments and Heal Our Marriage?
Video icon Q&A Shouldn't My Mate Be More Empathetic by Now?
Video icon Q&A What Is the Best Way to Start a Conversation When There Is so Much Hurt between Us?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Husband Heal from My Lack of Empathy?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Let Go of My Resentment?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Handle My Mates Lack of Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Is Calling This a ‘Mistake’ Minimization?
Video icon Q&A Does My Mate 'Get It' or Is He Justifying His Actions?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Convey Grief about My Betrayal Rather than Shame?
Video icon Q&A How Can a Betrayed Spouse Help with Their Unfaithful Partner's Selfish Shame, Guilt and Resentment?
Video icon Q&A How Can a Betrayed Spouse Help with Their Unfaithful Partner's Selfish Shame, Guilt and Resentment?
Video icon Q&A Do You Think We Can Ever Truly Move Forward without Him Seeking Any Help?
Video icon Q&A Can You Help Me Explain Why What My Husband Is Doing Isn't Working?
Video icon Q&A Can Our Marriage Survive If My Husband Never Sees the Affair for What It Was?
Video icon Q&A Can a Person Sincerely Do a ‘180’ on the Way He Treats His Wife after an Affair?
Video icon Q&A Will My Wife Ever Stop Blaming Me for Her Affair?
Video icon Q&A How I Can Get past My Husband's Lack of Seeing the Affair Partner for Who She Is?
Video icon Q&A How I Can Get past My Husband's Lack of Seeing the Affair Partner for Who She Is?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Mate Stop Living in the Past?
Video icon Q&A Will My Husband Ever See the Affair for What It Really Was?