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.

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Text icon Forgiving Infidelity: The Gift of Forgiveness
Video icon Q&A What Exactly Do I Grieve and Do I Have to Grieve Before I Can Forgive?
Video icon Forgiving Yourself: A Healing Necessity for Both Spouses
Video icon Q&A How Can I Forgive the Affair Partner When She Is Still Impacting My Life So Negatively?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Stop Hating the Affair Partner?
Text icon The True Definition of Love and Its Role In Surviving An Affair
Video icon The Myth of Greener Grass in Marriage
Video icon Lies We Believe About Our Spouse
Video icon Q&A Can I Forgive My Husband for Abandonment?
Text icon What Are Some Practical Steps to Take to Forgive My Spouse?
Video icon Mistakes Families Make After an Affair
Video icon Reclaiming Dignity and Worth as a Woman with Laurie Bryson, M.A. & LPC
Video icon The Process of Healing from Infidelity
Text icon Is Forgiveness Really Possible?
Video icon Creating Healing Spaces
Video icon Q&A What Does Making Restitution Look Like in a Marriage after an Affair?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get over the Fact He Wanted to Walk Out on Us?
Text icon Who is the Other Woman?
Text icon The Fight to Forgive
Text icon What Is the Cost of Forgiving Infidelity?
Video icon Q&A What If the Only Way I Can Heal Is without Horizontal Forgiveness?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Forgive Myself for Marrying Someone While Choosing to Essentially Re-Marry Him?
Text icon Forgiveness: A Letter to My Younger Self
Video icon What Is A Forgiveness Letter?
Video icon Q&A Should My Unfaithful Spouse Make a Symbolic Sacrifice to Help My Healing?
Video icon Q&A How Should I Answer Him When He Says I Should Forgive Him like the Bible Says to Forgive?
Video icon Q&A Why Can't I Forgive One of the Multiple Affairs?
Video icon Q&A Must I Be Completely Finished with the Grieving Task before I Can Move to Forgiveness?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Take Control of My Life So That I Can Forgive and Heal?
Video icon Q&A Is It Important for Me to Actually Tell Him That I Have Forgiven Him?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Cope, Accept, and Reconcile with the Reckless Choice My Husband Made?
Video icon Q&A Do You Have Any Suggestions on Forgiving Someone You Can't Work through Things With?
Video icon Q&A Is It Possible to Forgive a Person but Not Forgive Their Actions?
Video icon Q&A Is It Possible or Even Wise to Forgive My Spouse?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Move Forward in Forgiving Myself?
Video icon Q&A Will I Ever Be Able to See the Time during the Affair as Something Other Than Tainted or Fake?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get past the Things I Think He Might Have Said to Her?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Ever Desire My Mate When I Can't Forget What Happened?
Text icon Are You Forgivable? Part 3: Stupid Apologies
Text icon Are You Forgivable? Part 2: 7 Myths Undermining Forgiveness
Text icon Are You Forgivable? Part 1: Self Assessment
Video icon Q&A Can We Ever Get past This If I Know That I Don't Want to Forgive My Mate?
Video icon Q&A What Are Your Thoughts about My Behavior?
Video icon Q&A Is There a Chance for Forgiveness or Reconciliation?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Handle the Injustice of It All?
Video icon Q&A Is There a Difference between Just Getting over What Happened and Forgiveness?
Video icon Q&A Does Forgiveness Give My Mate a Free Pass?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Forgive the Unforgivable?
Video icon Q&A Why Am I so Concerned About the Affair Partner?
Text icon Bedside Forgiveness: When Death Coincides With Infidelity