Types of Affairs

Facing recovery can be overwhelming, use this section to identify which of the six types of affairs you are dealing with and develop a specific strategy for healing.

240 Resources
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Video icon Q&A What Affair Type Category Does an Entire Second Identity Fall Under?
Video icon Q&A Can Our Relationship Recover from a Substance-Fueled Betrayal?
Video icon Q&A Is My Spouse's Financial Infidelity Linked to Their Affair or Is It a Separate Issue?
Video icon Q&A Can You Give More Information on the Love-Addiction Affair Type and What It Is?
Video icon Q&A How Does He Not Have Deep Residual Feelings for the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Could He Possibly Call What He Had with the Affair Partner ‘Love'?
Video icon Q&A Is It Possible to Have an Emotional Affair for Many Years and Not Be In Limerence?
Video icon Q&A How Can Someone Love You Even During the Betrayal?
Video icon Q&A Will an Emotional Affair Become Physical with Enough Opportunity?
Video icon Q&A What Stops an Emotional Affair from Becoming Physical? How Do I Work through This Chasm in Our View of What Happened?
Video icon Q&A Can You Give Me Input on How My Mate Justified Their Actions?
Video icon Q&A Can My Wife Be In Limerence Twice with the Same Man or Is It Love?
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 Do We Navigate Seeing the Emotional Part of the Affair Differently?
Video icon Q&A Can You Elaborate More on Type Four Affairs?
Video icon Q&A Do You Think My Spouse Is Being Honest about Why They Stayed in the Affair for So Long?
Video icon Q&A What Type of Affair Is This?
Video icon Q&A Can You Further Explain How to Determine and Address What Could Have Led to My Husband’s Affair?
Video icon Q&A What Kind of Affair Is This?
Video icon Q&A If He Was Having an Affair to Get Some Sort of Thrill or Feeling from That Person Why Did He Constantly Want My Attention Too?
Video icon Q&A Can You Help Us to Understand in What Ways a Long-Term Affair with a Toxic Affair Partner Effect the Recovery Process?
Video icon Q&A Is It Possible for Spouses to Have Emotional Affairs With Same Sex Best Friends?
Video icon Q&A Could It Be Limerance When the Affair Partner Is an Old Flame?
Video icon Q&A Is It Possible There Is a 7th Type of Affair?
Video icon Q&A How Could He Go from One Affair to Another?
Video icon Q&A Why Did My Husband Have Such a Seemingly Lame Affair?
Video icon Q&A Did My Husband Have an Affair Because He Felt Unloved and Unappreciated In Our Marriage?
Video icon Q&A Is Fantasy Sex a Betrayal?
Video icon Q&A Is There a Seventh Type of Affair?
Video icon Q&A Do You Classify This as a Sexual Addiction or Is This a Different Type of Affair?
Video icon Q&A What Is the Definition of an Emotional Affair?
Video icon Q&A Could There Really Be Such a Thing as a Midlife Crisis Affair?
Video icon Q&A What Is My Husband's Addiction?
Video icon Q&A What Is She Ambivalent about If There Was No Emotional Attachment to the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A Could Postpartum Depression Lead to an Affair?
Video icon Q&A Can You Go into More Detail about the 'Lonely Hearts Club' Affair?
Video icon Q&A What Type of Affair Does This Qualify As?
Video icon Q&A Could This Be Sex Addiction and How Is That Different for Recovery?
Video icon Q&A Was it Really Love?
Video icon Q&A What Do You Do If Your Spouse Refuses to Acknowledge That Emotional Affairs Are Valid?
Video icon Q&A How Can Do We Get past This When She Doesn’t Believe She Had a Physical Affair?
Video icon Q&A Was This Limerence or Something More?
Video icon Q&A Is There a Way to Determine the Difference between an Affair Being Motivated by Revenge as Opposed to the Wayward Spouse Justifying an Affair or Are They One in the Same?
Video icon Q&A How Is It Possible to Compartmentalize the Way My Husband Did?
Video icon Q&A Could His Early Experience Have Played a Part in His Affair and His Attitude Toward Sex Now?
Video icon Q&A Is It Possible to Feel No Shame or Guilt?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Make Him Understand That Porn Is Also Infidelity?
Video icon Q&A Is This Type of Acting Out Not Part of What We Call a Mid-life Crisis?
Video icon Q&A Was This an Emotional Affair?
Video icon Q&A Do Men Actually Not Engage Their Heart?