How to Forgive Everyone’s recovery looks different, but one consistent factor that must occur is forgiveness. Read the articles in this section to understand the process of forgiveness and to find tools for moving forward. Must Reads more less Social Shame: Understanding the Paralysis of it Affair Recovery Timeline for Healing After Betrayal Surviving Infidelity Part 1: What Do You Need to Know? Infidelity Counseling: How Effective Is It? The Seven Mistakes Churches Make When Dealing With Infidelity Untransformed Pain will be Transmitted Why Did My Spouse Cheat? A Crucial Question In Healing After An Affair Surviving Infidelity: The #1 Challenge to Recovery 31 Reasons to Stop an Affair: Part 1 20 Most Common Mistakes of the Hurt Spouse Surviving Infidelity: What Do We Tell the Kids? Ending an Affair: Lock the Door Part 1 How Long Does It Take to Recover From An Affair? 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Part IV - Doublespeak and Distorted Comparisons Bedside Forgiveness: When Death Coincides With Infidelity Healing After an Affair: How do I Address Unmanageability? 20 Most Common Mistakes of the Unfaithful Spouse Ending an Affair - Step One: Make the Decision 161 Resources Type Title Posted Reclaiming Dignity and Worth as a Woman with Laurie Bryson, M.A. & LPC 8/28/2024 The Process of Healing from Infidelity 8/07/2024 Is Forgiveness Really Possible? 6/26/2024 Creating Healing Spaces 5/01/2024 Q&A What Does Making Restitution Look Like in a Marriage after an Affair? 1/30/2024 Q&A How Do I Get over the Fact He Wanted to Walk Out on Us? 1/30/2024 Who is the Other Woman? 12/06/2023 Forgiving Infidelity: The Gift of Forgiveness 11/07/2023 The Fight to Forgive 8/30/2023 What Is the Cost of Forgiving Infidelity? 5/10/2023 Q&A What If the Only Way I Can Heal Is without Horizontal Forgiveness? 4/12/2023 Lies We Believe About Our Spouse 9/21/2022 The True Definition of Love and Its Role In Surviving An Affair 9/14/2022 Q&A How Do I Forgive Myself for Marrying Someone While Choosing to Essentially Re-Marry Him? 8/03/2022 Forgiveness: A Letter to My Younger Self 7/06/2022 What Is A Forgiveness Letter? 3/16/2022 Q&A Should My Unfaithful Spouse Make a Symbolic Sacrifice to Help My Healing? 11/04/2021 Q&A How Should I Answer Him When He Says I Should Forgive Him like the Bible Says to Forgive? 4/29/2021 Q&A Why Can't I Forgive One of the Multiple Affairs? 1/20/2021 Q&A Must I Be Completely Finished with the Grieving Task before I Can Move to Forgiveness? 11/18/2020 Q&A How Can I Take Control of My Life So That I Can Forgive and Heal? 10/22/2020 Q&A Is It Important for Me to Actually Tell Him That I Have Forgiven Him? 8/06/2020 Q&A How Do I Cope, Accept, and Reconcile with the Reckless Choice My Husband Made? 8/06/2020 Practical Suggestions for Forgiveness 7/22/2020 Q&A Do You Have Any Suggestions on Forgiving Someone You Can't Work through Things With? 6/19/2020 Q&A Is It Possible to Forgive a Person but Not Forgive Their Actions? 6/19/2020 Q&A Is It Possible or Even Wise to Forgive My Spouse? 6/03/2020 Q&A How Do I Move Forward in Forgiving Myself? 2/20/2020 Q&A Will I Ever Be Able to See the Time during the Affair as Something Other Than Tainted or Fake? 2/11/2020 Q&A How Do I Get past the Things I Think He Might Have Said to Her? 1/31/2020 Q&A How Can I Ever Desire My Mate When I Can't Forget What Happened? 11/22/2019 Are You Forgivable? Part 3: Stupid Apologies 11/13/2019 Are You Forgivable? Part 2: 7 Myths Undermining Forgiveness 11/06/2019 Are You Forgivable? Part 1: Self Assessment 10/30/2019 Q&A Can We Ever Get past This If I Know That I Don't Want to Forgive My Mate? 8/06/2019 Q&A What Are Your Thoughts about My Behavior? 7/03/2019 Q&A Is There a Chance for Forgiveness or Reconciliation? 6/11/2019 Q&A How Do I Handle the Injustice of It All? 6/05/2019 Q&A Is There a Difference between Just Getting over What Happened and Forgiveness? 5/21/2019 Q&A Does Forgiveness Give My Mate a Free Pass? 3/27/2019 Q&A How Do I Forgive the Unforgivable? 3/27/2019 Q&A Why Am I so Concerned About the Affair Partner? 3/20/2019 The Problem with Forgiveness 3/06/2019 Bedside Forgiveness: When Death Coincides With Infidelity 1/30/2019 Q&A How Do I Forgive Myself for Choosing to Stay? 1/09/2019 Q&A Is This Normal or Is This a Sign of Unforgiveness? 12/12/2018 Q&A How Do We Navigate Forgiveness with outside Parties? 11/07/2018 Q&A How Do We Move past All the Secrets? 10/23/2018 Q&A How Do I Forgive What My Mate Has Done? 10/10/2018 Q&A How Do We Get Closure? 9/12/2018 Pages1234next ›last »