Why They Did It
The lingering question that haunts almost everyone recovering from infidelity: Why? The unfaithful spouse may not know why just yet, but use these articles to gain insight and, eventually, freedom from the uncertainty.
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Video Q&A What Do I Do with a Spouse That Blames Me for the Affair? 7/12/2017
Video Q&A Do We Revert Back to Our Old State Once the Threat Disappears? 7/12/2017
Video Q&A Is It Common for People to Rationalize Behaviors Other Than Intercourse as 'Okay'? 7/05/2017
Video Q&A Will My Fantasy Dreams End? 6/28/2017
Video Q&A Once a Person Cheats, Are They More Likely to Cheat Again? 6/21/2017
Video Q&A He Says I'm 50% Responsible for His Affair. Is That a Sign of Denial? 6/21/2017
Video Q&A Aren’t Betrayal and Love Incompatible? 6/21/2017
Video Q&A How Can I Heal from the Dishonor of His Sharing My Secrets with Her? 6/21/2017
Video Q&A Why Does He Say He Wants to Save the Marriage? 6/07/2017
Video Q&A How Do I Heal without the Details of My Wife's Affair? 5/26/2017
Video Q&A Should I Continue Forward or Wait until He Wants to Recommit to Us? 5/26/2017
Video Q&A How Will I Know If He Truly Is Happy? 5/26/2017
Video Q&A What Does His Excuse for the Affairs Truly Mean? 5/24/2017
Video Q&A What Do You Do When Ambivalence and Limerance Don't Cover It? 5/24/2017
Video Q&A What Do You Mean By, "People with a Strong Moral Compass Are More Likely to Have an Affair"? 5/17/2017
Video Q&A Where Was My Husband's Self Respect during the Affair? 5/17/2017
Video Q&A If He Didn't Love His Affair Partner, Why Was He Planning Their Anniversary? 5/10/2017
Video Q&A Is It Possible for Someone to Have a Long Term Affair without Emotional Attachment? 5/10/2017
Video Q&A What Keeps Someone from Cheating? 5/03/2017
Video Expert Q&A Preview: Why Did I Do This and How Do I Get out of This Pit? 5/03/2017
Video Q&A How Can She Be So Kind Now after the Way She Treated Me Just a Year Ago? 5/03/2017
Video Q&A Why Do You Say Oral Sex Is 'Always about Sex'? 4/25/2017
Video Q&A How Can We Figure out What the Affair Was About? 4/25/2017
Video Q&A Why Was He a Different Person in His Affairs? Why Can't He Be More Like That with Me? 4/25/2017
Video Q&A Is This Normal Limerence or Is He a Love Addict? 4/12/2017
Video Q&A How Will My Spouse See That I Never Loved My Affair Partner? 4/12/2017
Video Expert Q&A Preview: How Can My Husband Overcome His Ambivalence? 3/29/2017
Video Q&A Why Should I Stay in a Marriage That Wasn't So Great to Begin With? 3/29/2017
Video Q&A Is It Normal for Affair Partners to Be Called a Boyfriend or Girlfriend? 3/22/2017
Video Q&A Is It Normal for Him to Still Think about Her and Desire Her? 3/08/2017
Video Q&A Do Neglectful Mothers Create Sons Who Become Emotionally Unavailable and Love Avoidant Men? 3/08/2017
Video Q&A How Can Someone Hate Their Parent's Infidelity and Then Do It Themselves? 3/08/2017
Video Q&A Is She Finally Choosing Me or Is It Something Else? 3/08/2017
Video Q&A What Do You Advise for Me to Set Safe Boundaries and Expectations? 3/08/2017
Video Q&A Can you Help me Understand Men and Intimacy Avoidance? 2/08/2017
Video Q&A He Desires the Affair Partner but is Choosing me Because it's the Right Thing to do. What do I do with that? 2/08/2017
Video Q&A What can I Expect in Regards to my Wife Changing her Negative Historical Lens of Our Marriage? 2/08/2017
Video Q&A How Could he go from Loving Her and Hating Me to Loving Me and Hating Her? 2/08/2017
Video Q&A How can I Stop my Victim Thinking and Take Ownership for my Issues? 1/24/2017
Video Q&A Why Did I Have an Affair? Was I My True Self During My Affair? 1/11/2017
Video Q&A Why would he Cause me and His Affair Partner to be so Close Together? 12/20/2016
Video Q&A Have you Seen a Marriage Recover from this Kind of Affair? 11/30/2016
Video Q&A Can You Explain to me the Psychology Behind this Behavior? 11/30/2016
Video Q&A What Can You make of All This? 11/30/2016
Video Q&A How Can I Help My Husband Feel Safe While I Can't Remember Details that He Wants? 11/02/2016
Video Q&A Why Does He Continually Want Her and Not Me? 11/02/2016
Video Q&A Why Would He Make a Decision to do This? 10/24/2016
Video Q&A How do you Know if Someone is a Sex Addict or Just Wanting Something More? 10/24/2016
Video Q&A Is My Husband Evil, or Just Extremely Cruel? 10/24/2016
Video Q&A Can There be no Feelings After an 8 Year Affair? 10/18/2016

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