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**Disclaimer: The events discussed in this week's article can be triggering. If you or your spouse was affected by the Ashley Madison hack of 2015, I'd like to encourage you to use caution in reading this article as it is a hard-hitting article—addressing triggers, reminders, and shame associated with both infidelity and the Ashley Madison website. Please go slow and use wisdom with how much one reads in one sitting. Thank you, Rick Reynolds Founder of Affairrecovery.com
Samuel discusses the journey couples go through when trying to heal from infidelity or addiction.
Samuel discusses how every unfaithful spouse has a self destruct button and how to avoid it.
I stink at being alone. I have never been alone; not even my time in my mother's womb was in solitude—I am a twin. I have always shared birthdays, rooms, busses, spotlights, cookies, bathrooms, etc.
When I first arrived at college, I remember sitting in my new dorm room by myself. My soon-to-be roommate would never show. Apparently she got cold feet and withdrew from the university. I remember for the first time in my life having a very primal panicky feeling of "aloneness." This was the first of many times in my life when realized I did not like that feeling and felt the desperation to rid myself of it.
Without a clue of how to deal with that desperate feeling within, I started to fill the emptiness with people. I was already an extrovert, so it wasn't too much of a stretch for me...
Samuel shares insight into why we find ourselves alone as unfaithful spouses.
Samuel shares six gifts we can give ourselves to help heal from infidelity.
This quote flashed on the screen behind the minister in church today. He'd already said he was not going to comment on any of the quotes behind him as he had his own schtick to say. When I read this, he lost me for a few moments as I took in the wisdom within the printed words.
And then it occurred to me—I have attempted to pour out the effect my husband's betrayals have had on me in hope that you, the reader, might relate and feel validated. Perhaps the most poignant are the posts that offer the proverbial ray of light in the darkness. It certainly is what I need in order to maintain a positive perspective from the pit; grieving the loss of the marriage I thought I had.
Step Twelve of Alcoholics Anonymous states, "Having had a spiritual awakening as...
Samuel shares insights from his own personal journey with despair and hopelessness on how to make it to the other side.
Samuel shares the seven biggest pitfalls couples are struggling with in 2019.
When we entered into recovery from infidelity, there was a long season of disbelief—even though I was telling the truth. Granted, after what I had done to my marriage, I didn't deserve to be believed; nevertheless, it is a very disheartening and discouraging time.
After discovery, I knew I had hit what many would call "rock bottom." I was so tired of my lies, my life, and myself—so I came clean. I told the entire truth about what I had done. For the first time in my life, it felt good to be rid of every secret and every "bad and shameful thing," and have it all out on the table.
However, my husband did not believe me for many months; perhaps a more true statement was that he could not believe me. He would ask if there was more. He would ask if that was everything. There were times he would even come up with new information...
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