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A Crucial Question In Healing After An Affair Dealing with Infidelity: How to Get You Mate to Cooperate (Without Being Controlling) 371 Resources Type Title Posted Q&A How Could He Possibly Call What He Had with the Affair Partner ‘Love'? 3/26/2025 Nine Signs of an Emotional Affair 3/12/2025 Q&A Who Falls in True Love with an Affair Partner? 3/11/2025 Q&A How Much of This Developmental Trauma Contributed to Me Having an Affair in Adulthood? 2/25/2025 Q&A Does It Matter Who Ended the Affair? 2/25/2025 Why Did They Choose the Affair Partner? 2/19/2025 How to Prevent Relapse After Infidelity 12/11/2024 Were They Thinking of Me? 12/04/2024 Common Justifications for Why Women Cheat 10/16/2024 Q&A Did My Wife Need to Justify Her Behavior in Cheating on Me? 9/18/2024 Reclaiming Dignity and Worth as a Woman with Laurie Bryson, M.A. & LPC 8/28/2024 Pimping Tenderness & Grooming Behaviors 6/19/2024 Q&A Will I Ever Accept His Reasons for the Affairs? 6/13/2024 2 Things You Must Understand About the Disclosure Process 6/05/2024 A Toxic Mix: Gaslighting and Infidelity 5/15/2024 Q&A How Do I Address Her Readiness to Engage With Someone So Despicable Versus Her Resistance to Reconnect Intimately With Me? 5/07/2024 Q&A How Much Does Alcohol Play a Factor in a One Night Stand? 4/25/2024 Q&A How Do We Know if Our Cheating Spouse Is a Sex Addict, Has a Personality Disorder, or if It Is Something Else? 4/25/2024 The Affair Causing Habit 4/17/2024 The Truth About Lying 3/27/2024 Q&A How Can Someone Love You Even During the Betrayal? 3/19/2024 Understanding the Mind of the Unfaithful: Minimizing the Affair 2/14/2024 Why Did My Spouse Cheat? A Crucial Question In Healing After An Affair 1/31/2024 Q&A Can My Wife Be In Limerence Twice with the Same Man or Is It Love? 9/12/2023 Q&A How Do We Navigate Seeing the Emotional Part of the Affair Differently? 6/29/2023 Recovering From Infidelity Pain: Are They Lying About ‘Why’? 6/28/2023 Q&A Why Would He Go Back to the Same Person He Thinks Is So Nasty? 6/16/2023 Q&A How Did ADHD and Other Factors Like Depression and Anxiety Contribute to My Affairs? 6/16/2023 Q&A Can You Elaborate More on Type Four Affairs? 6/16/2023 Q&A Is It My Fault That They Did What They Did? 5/02/2023 Q&A Do You Think My Spouse Is Being Honest about Why They Stayed in the Affair for So Long? 4/12/2023 Why People Cheat: Were They Predisposed to Cheat (Part 2) 4/12/2023 Why People Cheat: The Fog of Self-Deception (Part 1) 4/05/2023 Q&A Do We Have a Chance at Recovery If He Is Unable to Understand How Trauma Can Impact Me? 3/17/2023 Q&A Why Does He Tell Me I Am the Only Girl and Will Be Faithful When He Continues to See Other Women? 3/17/2023 Q&A Can You Further Explain How to Determine and Address What Could Have Led to My Husband’s Affair? 2/17/2023 How Could You? Part V - The Secrecy Factor 2/15/2023 How Could You? Part IV - Doublespeak and Distorted Comparisons 2/08/2023 How Could You? Part VI - Dehumanization and Blame 2/02/2023 How Could You? Part III: Moral Justification 2/01/2023 Q&A Does This Type of Repeated Behavior Indicate an Addiction or Wanting Both the Marriage and the Affair, or Both? 1/26/2023 How Could You? Part II: The Thought Processes That Lead to Betrayal 1/25/2023 How Could You? Part I: Why We Commit Betrayal With Infidelity 1/18/2023 Q&A How Do I Explain That My Childhood Trauma Triggered My Actions and Doesn’t Remove My Accountability Even If I Did Disassociate? 1/11/2023 Ever Wonder Why Men Cheat and Why Women Cheat? 12/14/2022 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? 12/06/2022 Surviving Infidelity: Three Types of Reconciliation 9/07/2022 How Does My Spouse Escape the Neurochemical Process of Limerence? 6/22/2022 Q&A Could It Be Limerance When the Affair Partner Is an Old Flame? 6/14/2022 Q&A Is It Possible There Is a 7th Type of Affair? 5/24/2022 Pages12345678next ›last »
