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 How Could He Go from One Affair to Another?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get Over This Betrayal?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Ever Get Over His Believing He Loved The Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A As a Betrayed Husband Is It Unrealistic to Want My Wife to Pursue Me Physically?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get past the Uncontrollable Fear of This Happening Again or That It Is Still Happening?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Continue in This Process When Only One of Us Is Committed?
Video icon Q&A How Much Harder Will Our Recovery Be in This Situation?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Put In the Effort Needed on My End for Intimacy without Getting the Same Failed Result?
Video icon What Is A Forgiveness Letter?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Trust Him Again?
Video icon Q&A If My Spouse Felt So Much Guilt and Shame the First Time, Why Did They Do It Again?
Video icon Q&A How Was He Able to Do a 180 Turn on Discovery?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Create a Shared View of Our Relationship When We Have No Valid Timelines to Reference?
Video icon Q&A Why Was It Easy for Him to Be Nice to Everyone but Me, His Wife?
Video icon Q&A Do You Agree It’s Necessary to Re-Establish No Contact?
Video icon Q&A Why Don’t I Respect My Husband?
Video icon Q&A How Should I Go About Trying to Get to Ground Zero?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get past the Affair Partner Continually Sending Me Photos and Descriptive Dialog?
Video icon Q&A What Do I Do When My Partner Is in Denial about His Infidelity?
Video icon Q&A Should a Wayward Spouse Be Allowed to Have Friends of the Opposite Gender?
Video icon Q&A How do I Heal?
Video icon Q&A Is He Just Not Interested in Me or Did He Magically Figure Out How to Treat a Woman?
Video icon 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?
Video icon Q&A Am I Being Closed Minded?
Video icon Q&A How Should I Deal With Characteristics That I Do Not Possess, Yet Seem to Have Been Sought after by My Spouse in the Affair Partners?
Video icon Q&A What Do I Do to Protect My, and My Children’s, Heart?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Get To a More Balanced Psyche?
Video icon Q&A Is It Wrong to Feel a Sense of a Sexual Revolution, after His Affair?
Video icon Q&A What Do We Do When We Both Cheated, If My Betrayal Was ‘Worse’ than His?
Video icon Q&A Am I Choosing Closeness over Intimacy When I Don’t Let My Mate Know About Intrusive Thoughts When We Are Lovemaking?
Video icon Q&A How Can My Wife Believe That She Fulfilled Her Fantasy If She Also Says That’s Not Who She Truly Is?
Video icon Q&A Is This Finally Enough to Divorce and End Recovery Work?
Video icon Q&A What Type of Recovery Program Does My Husband Need?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Get My Emotionally Unavailable Husband to Walk toward the Storm Instead of Away?
Video icon Q&A Are My Expectations Too High?
Video icon Q&A What Do We Do When the Affair Partner Refuses to Cooperate about the Child?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Set Boundaries If They Keep Being Disregarded and Violated?
Video icon Q&A Should I Change Churches or Should I Just Get Over It since It Was All in His Fantasies?
Video icon Q&A What Should I Do With the Saved Messages between My Husband and His Affair Partners?
Video icon Q&A Why Is He Okay as Long as I Don’t Talk about It? How Can We Get past This If He’s Unwilling to Answer Questions?
Video icon Q&A Should We Abstain from Sex at This Point in Our Recovery?
Video icon Q&A At What Point Is It Unhealthy to Be Avoiding Events Because the Affair Partner May Go or Avoiding Places Because They Once Went There Together?
Text icon Social Shame: Surviving Infidelity Isn’t Enough
Text icon Social Shame: Have You Been Dishonored?
Text icon Social Shame: Understanding the Paralysis of it
Video icon Q&A Why Is My Wayward Spouse Playing the Victim in Our Relationship?
Video icon Q&A Can His Expressed Feelings of Love Be True When He Was Deceiving and Betraying Me?
Video icon Q&A How Much Should I Allow My Hurt Spouse to Vent and Control Conversations?
Video icon Q&A What Can I Ask My Spouse to Do That Also Requires the Same Amount of Effort in the Process of Recovery?
Video icon Q&A Should My Unfaithful Spouse Make a Symbolic Sacrifice to Help My Healing?