For The Hurt Spouse There are many aspects in the recovery of the betrayed spouse that will look very different from the unfaithful spouse. These articles are written specifically for healing and to provide hope and encouragement for the hurt spouse. Must Reads more less Dealing with Infidelity: How to Get You Mate to Cooperate (Without Being Controlling) How Could You? Part IV - Doublespeak and Distorted Comparisons Surviving Infidelity Part 1: What Do You Need to Know? Surviving Infidelity: What Do We Tell the Kids? Ending an Affair - Step One: Make the Decision 20 Most Common Mistakes of the Unfaithful Spouse Coping with Infidelity: The 2 Stages of Pain 20 Most Common Mistakes of the Hurt Spouse Surviving Infidelity: The #1 Challenge to Recovery Affair Recovery Timeline for Healing After Betrayal Pimping Tenderness & Grooming Behaviors Why Did My Spouse Cheat? A Crucial Question In Healing After An Affair Does Time Heal All Wounds? Healing After An Affair 31 Reasons to Stop an Affair: Part 1 The Problem with Forgiveness Why People Cheat: The Fog of Self-Deception (Part 1) How to Survive Infidelity How Could You? Part I: Why We Commit Betrayal With Infidelity Bedside Forgiveness: When Death Coincides With Infidelity Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 1 - Not Knowing What Happened Untransformed Pain will be Transmitted How Long Does It Take to Recover From An Affair? Healing After an Affair: How do I Address Unmanageability? The Power of Small Groups Ending an Affair: Lock the Door Part 1 Rebuilding Trust After An Affair Social Shame: Understanding the Paralysis of it The Seven Mistakes Churches Make When Dealing With Infidelity Infidelity Counseling: How Effective Is It? Discovery: Part 1 - How to Handle Discovery 1230 Resources Type Title Posted Reclaiming Dignity and Worth as a Woman with Laurie Bryson, M.A. & LPC 8/28/2024 How to Find Answers 8/21/2024 Q&A Are We at the End of the Road? 8/20/2024 Q&A How Do I Get Past or Heal From the Hurtful Things My Husband Said About Me to His Affair Partners? 8/20/2024 Q&A Would Viewing Surveillance Footage of My Husband’s Affair Be Helpful? 8/14/2024 Q&A How Do I Get over Feeling Disgust With My Partner Over Who He Chose to Have an Affair With? 8/06/2024 Q&A How Do I Truly Know if My Wayward Spouse Has Changed? 8/06/2024 Q&A What Do I Do When My Wayward Spouse Refuses to Meet My Emotional Needs? 8/06/2024 Q&A How Can I Better Understand the Behaviors of My Wayward Spouse? 7/31/2024 Q&A How Can I Help My Wayward Spouse Heal From Betrayal Trauma From a Prior Relationship? 7/31/2024 Q&A What Advice Do You Have for Polygraphs, Anxiety Induced False Positives, and Full Disclosure During Recovery? 7/26/2024 Q&A How Can I Believe My Mate When They Say the Affair Is Over? 7/26/2024 Affair Partners: Eight Reasons Not to Confront Them 7/24/2024 Why This Hurts So Much... 7/17/2024 Q&A As the Betrayed, Should I Focus on Avoiding the Affair Partner? 7/10/2024 Q&A How Can We Reconnect if I Don’t Know What Happened? 7/10/2024 Q&A Am I Asking for Too Much Control or Is the Wayward Spouse Being Unreasonable With a Lack of Boundaries? 7/10/2024 Q&A Do I Need to Allow the Wayward Spouse to Have More Time in the Recovery Process? 7/10/2024 Q&A Can You Please Address the Problem of Grieving Memories Like Childbirth Under the Shadow of an Affair? 6/19/2024 Q&A How Do I Stop the Comparisons, Build Confidence, and Get Better at Sex Without Feeling Like I’m Trying to Be Like the Affair Partner? 6/19/2024 Pimping Tenderness & Grooming Behaviors 6/19/2024 Q&A What Is the Best Way to Build Trust Around My Husband’s Actions and My Triggers? 6/13/2024 Q&A Is It Okay for the Unfaithful to Masturbate While I, the Betrayed, Can’t Be Intimate Right Now Because of Lack of Emotional Connection and a Lot of Hurt? 6/13/2024 Q&A Will I Ever Accept His Reasons for the Affairs? 6/13/2024 Q&A Does My Mate Still Have Feelings for His Affair Partner? 5/14/2024 Q&A How Do I Know When My Husband is Safe Again? 5/07/2024 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 Do I Cope With the Resurgence of Past Traumas Triggered by Such Betrayal? 4/25/2024 Q&A Every Time I Start to Feel Better, My Unfaithful Spouse Stops Putting in as Much Effort. How Can I Feel Safe When This Happens? 4/25/2024 Q&A How Do You Stop Thinking About and Forgive The Affair Partner? 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 Q&A Where Can I Find Help for My Mate’s Cognitive Issues Surrounding the Lessons and My Grief? 4/25/2024 Q&A Should My Husband Keep His Mother in His Life Given That She Actively Facilitated and Supported His Actions? 4/25/2024 Understanding Codependency and Betrayal: An Excerpt from Harboring Hope 4/24/2024 Q&A How Can I Be More Help to My Wayward Spouse Like He Has Been for Me? 4/03/2024 Q&A How Do I Deal with My Unfaithful Spouse’s Inability to Self-Reflect? 3/19/2024 Q&A How Can Someone Love You Even During the Betrayal? 3/19/2024 Q&A How Do I Get the Affair Partners Out of My Head? 3/19/2024 Q&A What Do I Do with an Unfaithful Spouse Who Will Not Provide Me with Full Disclosure? 2/28/2024 Q&A Is It Possible for Him to Rebuild Real Empathy and Actually Care about Me Again? 2/28/2024 Understanding the Mind of the Unfaithful: Minimizing the Affair 2/14/2024 Q&A Why Should I Go through This Program If I Don’t Believe My Unfaithful Spouse Loves Me Anymore? 1/30/2024 Q&A How Could My Unfaithful Partner Just Forget about the Affair Partner and What They Did Together? 1/30/2024 Q&A How Do I Get over the Fact He Wanted to Walk Out on Us? 1/30/2024 What is Healing? 1/10/2024 Q&A Given That Addiction Is Part of His Personality with the Alcohol Abuse, Is He Also a Sex Addict? Is There Any Chance He Might Get Better with DBT Therapy? 1/09/2024 Q&A Are My Assumptions about the Affair Partner’s Intentions Reasonable? 1/09/2024 Q&A How Do I Tell My Unfaithful Spouse I Need Access to His Devices to Feel Safe? 1/09/2024 Q&A Can You Give Me Input on How My Mate Justified Their Actions? 1/09/2024 Q&A How Do I Get past Feeling So Much Time Was Stolen from Me? 1/09/2024 Pages123456789…next ›last »