For the Unfaithful Spouse

Recovery for the unfaithful spouse requires much more humility and personal responsibility than that of the betrayed spouse. These articles are specifically to navigate recovery for the unfaithful spouse.

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Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Mate Get back the Dignity and Self-Worth I Took From Her With My Betrayal?
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 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 Do I Have to Take a Polygraph?
Video icon Q&A Should I Risk Provoking My Affair Partner if It Makes My Mate Feel Better?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Reconnect Intimately With My Betrayed Husband Now Knowing That He Is Dealing with His Own Temptations?
Text icon Pimping Tenderness & Grooming Behaviors
Video icon Q&A How Do I Respond When the Betrayed Ridicules, Shames, and Slanders Me for What I Have Done?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Do Everything Right at Every Moment for My Wife?
Video icon Q&A Why Should I Stay With My Current Wife When I Really Want to Be With My Ex-Wife?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Wife Feel Safe When She Is Triggered?
Video icon Manifestation of Shame Part 1: The Unfaithful
Video icon Understanding the Mind of the Unfaithful: Minimizing the Affair
Video icon What Does Doing the Work of Infidelity Recovery Mean for the Unfaithful - Infidelity Recovery
Text icon Hope For Healing Excerpt: How Does The Unfaithful Make Amends?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Communicate Love, Compassion, and Empathy during the Discovery Process or Questioning?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Deal With My Sexual Addiction When Everything I’ve Tried Isn’t Working?
Text icon Surviving Infidelity: The #1 Challenge to Recovery
Text icon Healing After an Affair: Emotional Flooding and Reminders
Video icon Q&A Do I Have the Right to Know What My Spouse Is Doing to Monitor Me?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Show Empathy Towards My Wife after Her Revenge Affair When She Refuses to Give Full Disclosure?
Text icon How Can You Move Past Ambivalence After Infidelity?
Text icon Hope for Healing Excerpt: 'Is My Life Out of Control?'
Video icon Q&A How Can I Continue to Be Empathetic to Her If in Spite of All I Do, It Is Still Not Enough?
Video icon Q&A I Understand the Importance of Not Being Defensive about the Infidelity or Betrayal, but Does That Extend into Every Aspect of Our Lives?
Video icon Q&A How Did ADHD and Other Factors Like Depression and Anxiety Contribute to My Affairs?
Text icon How to Get Your Mate to Cooperate (Without Being Controlling)
Video icon Q&A Why Do I Still Respond Physically like I Am Lying When I’m Telling the Truth?
Video icon Q&A Are Any Lasting Feelings for the Affair Partner Permitted?
Video icon Q&A I’m Losing Compassion for My Mate. What Can I Do?
Video icon Q&A How Do You Recommend I Write My Closure Letter to the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A Do We Have a Chance at Recovery If He Is Unable to Understand How Trauma Can Impact Me?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Approach This Polygraph without Feeling like My Marriage Is on the Line?
Text icon Discovery: Part 2 - Advice For The Wayward Spouse
Video icon Q&A How Can I Convince My Mate That I’m Not Talking to the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Explain Disassociation and It’s Part in the Affair?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Husband Understand the Effects of Trauma While Also Letting Him See That It Is Not an Excuse for My Actions?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Explain That My Childhood Trauma Triggered My Actions and Doesn’t Remove My Accountability Even If I Did Disassociate?
Video icon 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'?
Text icon Why is Trusting Again So Hard?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get over All of the Pain That I Have Caused?
Text icon Pleasing Versus Loving
Text icon The Mystery of Change
Video icon Q&A Are My Kids Really ‘Love Children’ from My Affairs?
Video icon Q&A How Can the Unfaithful Work through the Deception Regarding the Infidelity?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Husband Believe I’m Not Manipulating Him?
Video icon Q&A Will I Be Able to Find My Wife Sexually Attractive Again or Have I Broken My Brain?