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.

362 Resources
Type Title Posted
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'?
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?
Text icon The Proper Use of Boundaries - Creating Space for Healing and Change
Video icon Q&A How Can an Unfaithful Spouse Develop Emotional Intelligence?
Video icon Q&A Is It Strange for the Unfaithful to Have Depression?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Keep My Boundaries Strong in a Place of Leadership?
Video icon Q&A Am I Just Playing the Victim to Reduce My Guilt?
Text icon Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 4 - Not Grieving the Loss
Video icon Q&A How Do I Respond to the Betrayed’s Triggers When It’s Affecting My Mental Health Now?
Text icon Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 3 - Hiding in Denial
Text icon Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 2 - Not Getting It
Text icon Are You Vulnerable to an Affair? Part III: Individual Vulnerability
Text icon Are You Vulnerable to an Affair? Part II: Marital Vulnerability
Text icon Are You Vulnerable to an Affair?
Video icon Q&A Why Can’t I Give My Spouse Full Disclosure?
Video icon Q&A What Is the Best Way to Discuss the Questions That Most Wayward Spouses Get from the Betrayed?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Handle Disclosure When My Infidelity Was So Long Ago and I Can’t Remember All the Details?
Video icon Q&A How Should I as a Wayward Spouse Approach My Spouse’s Continual Desire for Reassurance?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Emotionally Connect with Someone Who Treats Me This Way?
Video icon Q&A How Long Does It Take for Desire for My Mate to Return after Severing Ties with My Affair Partners?
Video icon Q&A How Long Should I Accept and Validate His Exaggerated Reactions as a Result of My Previously Reckless Behaviors?
Video icon Q&A What Do We Do When We Both Cheated, If My Betrayal Was ‘Worse’ than His?
Video icon Q&A Will the Betrayed’s Irritability Ever Go Away?
Video icon Q&A What Do I Do When the Betrayed Spouse Shuts Me Out and Doesn’t Want to Talk about His Pain, Unless Forced?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Husband Understand the Importance of Knowing the ‘Why’ and Also How to Can I Help Him See That It’s Not an Excuse or Blaming Anything?
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 How Do I Help My Betrayed Wife with Her Depression That Has Escalated Dramatically since Discovery?
Text icon Why Did They Cheat? Part 4: The Problem With Addictions
Text icon Why Did They Cheat? Part 3: Do They Have an Addiction?
Text icon Why Did They Cheat? Part 2: Entrapped or Enchanted
Text icon Why Did They Cheat? Part 1:The Role of Oxytocin
Video icon Q&A Should I Continue EMS Online on My Own?
Video icon Q&A Will My Husband Love Me Again, the Way He Used To?
Video icon Q&A When My Mate Floods, Why Do I Get Distressed In Turn?