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.

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Video icon Q&A Is It Normal for Family to Feel Disappointed at Us for Staying With the Wayward Spouse?
Video icon Q&A Why Does My Husband (Wayward) Not Want to Reconnect With Me (Betrayed) Physically?
Video icon Q&A Am I a Fool for Being Vulnerable With My Mate?
Video icon How to Get Your Mate to Cooperate
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get the Lying and the Porn Use by My Husband to Stop?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Feel Special Again After I Have Lost So Much Including Places That Were Just Ours?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Replace What I Feel With What I Know, if I Don’t Know What the Truth Is?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Shut Down the Intrusive Thoughts of My Husband With the Affair Partners That Have Become Erotic to Me?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Get These Images Out of My Mind and Get back to Just Being With My Husband?
Video icon A Discussion on Anger, Boundaries and Regrets After Infidelity
Video icon Reclaiming Dignity and Worth as a Woman with Laurie Bryson, M.A. & LPC
Text icon How to Find Answers
Video icon Q&A Are We at the End of the Road?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get Past or Heal From the Hurtful Things My Husband Said About Me to His Affair Partners?
Video icon Q&A Would Viewing Surveillance Footage of My Husband’s Affair Be Helpful?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get over Feeling Disgust With My Partner Over Who He Chose to Have an Affair With?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Truly Know if My Wayward Spouse Has Changed?
Video icon Q&A What Do I Do When My Wayward Spouse Refuses to Meet My Emotional Needs?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Better Understand the Behaviors of My Wayward Spouse?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Wayward Spouse Heal From Betrayal Trauma From a Prior Relationship?
Video icon Q&A What Advice Do You Have for Polygraphs, Anxiety Induced False Positives, and Full Disclosure During Recovery?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Believe My Mate When They Say the Affair Is Over?
Text icon Affair Partners: Eight Reasons Not to Confront Them
Text icon Why This Hurts So Much...
Video icon Q&A As the Betrayed, Should I Focus on Avoiding the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Reconnect if I Don’t Know What Happened?
Video icon Q&A Am I Asking for Too Much Control or Is the Wayward Spouse Being Unreasonable With a Lack of Boundaries?
Video icon Q&A Do I Need to Allow the Wayward Spouse to Have More Time in the Recovery Process?
Video icon Q&A Can You Please Address the Problem of Grieving Memories Like Childbirth Under the Shadow of an Affair?
Video icon 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?
Text icon Pimping Tenderness & Grooming Behaviors
Video icon Q&A What Is the Best Way to Build Trust Around My Husband’s Actions and My Triggers?
Video icon 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?
Video icon Q&A Will I Ever Accept His Reasons for the Affairs?
Video icon Q&A Does My Mate Still Have Feelings for His Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Know When My Husband is Safe Again?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Address Her Readiness to Engage With Someone So Despicable Versus Her Resistance to Reconnect Intimately With Me?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Cope With the Resurgence of Past Traumas Triggered by Such Betrayal?
Video icon 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?
Video icon Q&A How Do You Stop Thinking About and Forgive The Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Know if Our Cheating Spouse Is a Sex Addict, Has a Personality Disorder, or if It Is Something Else?
Video icon Q&A Where Can I Find Help for My Mate’s Cognitive Issues Surrounding the Lessons and My Grief?
Video icon Q&A Should My Husband Keep His Mother in His Life Given That She Actively Facilitated and Supported His Actions?
Text icon Understanding Codependency and Betrayal: An Excerpt from Harboring Hope
Video icon Q&A How Can I Be More Help to My Wayward Spouse Like He Has Been for Me?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Deal with My Unfaithful Spouse’s Inability to Self-Reflect?
Video icon Q&A How Can Someone Love You Even During the Betrayal?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get the Affair Partners Out of My Head?
Video icon Q&A What Do I Do with an Unfaithful Spouse Who Will Not Provide Me with Full Disclosure?
Video icon Q&A Is It Possible for Him to Rebuild Real Empathy and Actually Care about Me Again?