Emotional Regulation Rick offers suggestions for managing anger and resolving conflict within relationships. Learn how to have rational versus emotional conversations and how to control the flow of emotions. Must Reads more less Telling Your Children After the Affair Doesn’t Always Turn Out As Expected The 2 Stages of Pain How Could You? Part IV - Doublespeak and Distorted Comparisons Recovery Timeline Ending an Affair: Lock the Door Part 1 Bedside Forgiveness: When Death Coincides With Infidelity We Started Well, but... How Could You? Part I: Why We Commit Betrayal With Infidelity How do you respond to blackmail? Part II Why Did My Spouse Cheat? How to Survive Infidelity Untransformed Pain will be Transmitted The Problem with Forgiveness Pimping Tenderness & Grooming Behaviors Q&A How Can I Begin to Heal Our Relationship? 20 Most Common Mistakes of the Hurt Spouse The Myth of the Greener Grass: Where Are You Investing? Dealing with Infidelity: How to Get You Mate to Cooperate (Without Being Controlling) Rebuilding Trust After An Affair 602 Resources Type Title Posted Q&A Is My Lack of Emotion Normal or Am I Experiencing Something Much Worse? 3/17/2023 Q&A How Do Social Engagement and Our Nervous Systems Work Together? 3/02/2023 Q&A What Is a Realistic Timeline for My Own Recovery with C-PTSD and Childhood Trauma and Being Able to Answer Every Specifically Detailed ‘Why'? 1/11/2023 Untransformed Pain will be Transmitted 12/07/2022 Q&A Do I Keep It to Myself When I Get Triggered? 12/06/2022 Q&A How Can We Get Anywhere If a Calm Conversation Can’t Happen about His Recovery or Betrayals? 12/06/2022 Q&A How Important Is It to Interrupt Intrusive Thoughts within 3 Seconds? 12/06/2022 Handling Disappointment After Infidelity 11/08/2022 Anger: Its 6 Roots 9/28/2022 Intrusive Thoughts After the Affair: How to Manage Flooding 8/17/2022 Surviving Infidelity: What Do We Tell the Kids? 8/10/2022 Q&A Is This a Healthy Way to Process My Anger? 8/03/2022 How Does My Spouse Escape the Neurochemical Process of Limerence? 6/22/2022 Q&A How Do I Respond to the Betrayed’s Triggers When It’s Affecting My Mental Health Now? 6/14/2022 Q&A When Will the Constant Feeling That Another Betrayal Is Right around the Corner Fade? 5/24/2022 Q&A How Can I Channel My Own Genuine Positivity and Stop Being Concerned or Insulted by His Behaviors or Attitudes? 5/24/2022 Q&A How Do I Let Myself Be Happy Again? 4/08/2022 Understanding Codependency and Betrayal: An Excerpt from Harboring Hope 3/22/2022 What Is A Forgiveness Letter? 3/16/2022 Q&A How Do I Emotionally Connect with Someone Who Treats Me This Way? 3/10/2022 Q&A How Long Should I Accept and Validate His Exaggerated Reactions as a Result of My Previously Reckless Behaviors? 2/17/2022 Betrayal Trauma: How We Get Stuck in Trauma Bonds 2/09/2022 Q&A When an Intrusive Thought Occurs, How Do I Know the Difference between Suppressing and Ignoring That Thought versus Not Giving It Any Airtime, Capturing It, and Redirecting My Thinking to Something Else? 2/02/2022 Q&A How Can I Get To a More Balanced Psyche? 2/02/2022 Announcing NEW Infidelity Video Blog: Songs for the Soul 1/26/2022 Q&A Will the Betrayed’s Irritability Ever Go Away? 1/18/2022 Q&A How Can I Get My Emotionally Unavailable Husband to Walk toward the Storm Instead of Away? 1/18/2022 Social Shame: Four Ways to Stay In It 12/13/2021 Social Shame: Understanding the Paralysis of it 11/24/2021 Q&A How Much Should I Allow My Hurt Spouse to Vent and Control Conversations? 11/19/2021 Q&A How Do I Help My Betrayed Wife with Her Depression That Has Escalated Dramatically since Discovery? 11/04/2021 Q&A When Does Trauma Turn Into PTSD and Grief Turn Into Depression? 10/07/2021 The #1 Challenge to Recovery 9/29/2021 Healing After An Affair: Emotional Flooding & Reminders 9/22/2021 Q&A How Do I Deal With This When I Cannot Reasonably Ask Her to Quit Working nor Can I Check In Frequently to Make Sure It's Not Happening Again? 8/17/2021 How Do You Deal With Anger After Infidelity? 7/28/2021 Q&A When My Mate Floods, Why Do I Get Distressed In Turn? 7/08/2021 How Can You Move Past Ambivalence After Infidelity? 7/07/2021 Is Ambivalence Common When Healing from Infidelity? 6/30/2021 Q&A How Can I Pretend Normal Around Family When Even Thoughts of Them Are Triggering and Intrusive? 6/17/2021 Q&A How Do I Get Over the Fact That My Wife Gave Her Affair Partner More Intense and Passionate Sex Than She Has Ever Given Me? 6/16/2021 Mental Health and Parenting: How to Support Yourself and Your Kids 6/02/2021 How Couples Can Promote Good Mental Health During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic 5/26/2021 Hope Rising Conference 2021 Announcement: Words of Wisdom from Keynote Speaker Shauna Shanks 5/19/2021 How to Get Your Mate to Cooperate (Without Being Controlling) 5/05/2021 Q&A How Do I Cast Down My Thoughts of Beating Up My Wife’s Affair Partner? 4/29/2021 Q&A How Do I Go Back to Normal Sexual Behavior with My Spouse When My Spouse Told Me the Affair Partner Was Better Than Me in Bed and Also Had a Bigger Male Anatomy? 4/29/2021 Q&A How Do I Navigate Such Extreme Triggers from Discovery? 4/22/2021 A Discussion on Anger, Boundaries and Regrets After Infidelity 4/21/2021 Discovery: Why Do I Want to Know? 4/14/2021 Pages123456789…next ›last »