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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Video icon Q&A How Do I Forgive Myself for Choosing to Stay?
Video icon Q&A Is This Normal or Is This a Sign of Unforgiveness?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Navigate Forgiveness with outside Parties?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Move past All the Secrets?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Forgive What My Mate Has Done?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Get Closure?
Video icon Q&A What Does Desire for Reconciliation Look Like?
Video icon Q&A Is There Hope for Us?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Move past Resentments and Heal Our Marriage?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Move past the Feelings of Rage I Have Towards the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A What Does Forgiveness Look like after Multiple Relapses?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Rebuild Trust and Become Vulnerable Again?
Video icon Q&A Will My Formerly Wayward Spouse Ever Feel Special to Me Again?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Learn to Love My Spouse Again?
Video icon Q&A What's Wrong with Me?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Move past What My Mate Said to the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A Do You Have Suggestions for Handling the Transgressions That Occur before D-Day and After?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Let Go of the Need to Make My Husband Pay for What He Did?
Text icon Forgiving Infidelity: What Forgiveness Is NOT
Video icon Q&A How Do I, as the Betrayed, Learn to Love My Mate Again?
Video icon Q&A Should I Give My Mate Another Chance?
Video icon Q&A My Mate's Family Also Betrayed Me, How Do We Reconcile?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Handle Forgiveness When the AP Is a Family Member?
Video icon Q&A Do You Think I Am Wise to Pursue Forgiveness?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Know If I’ve Forgiven?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Forgive the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Forgive the AP Who Was Also a Close Friend?
Text icon Do You Struggle with Forgiveness?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Show Her We Can Recover from This?
Video icon Q&A Why Does It Seem That It Is Getting Harder to Overcome the Betrayal?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Show Acceptance and What Does It Look Like?
Video icon Q&A How Will I Know I Have Forgiven Both My Husband and the AP?
Video icon Q&A Why Can't I Get over the Affair Even Though My Husband Is Doing All the Work to Rebuild?
Video icon Q&A Should There Be Closure with the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A Is It Okay to Let the Affair Partner Know That I Forgive Her?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Overcome past Promises of Leaving after Betrayal?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Handle My Bitterness and Anger Coming Back after Giving Birth?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Move Safely from Here in the Presence of a Restraining Order?
Video icon Q&A Should We Make Amends by Contacting Former Affair Partners and Spouses?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Heal from the Dishonor of His Sharing My Secrets with Her?
Video icon Q&A Forgiveness and Infidelity
Video icon Q&A How Do I Stay in the Process of Forgiveness?
Video icon Q&A Can You Speak to Ambivalence on Behalf of the Betrayed Spouse?
Video icon Q&A Am I Dealing with Accusatory Suffering?
Video icon Q&A When Does a Betrayed Spouse Find Sexual Desire for Their Mate Again?
Video icon Q&A Should We Move to Get Away from the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Achieve Forgiveness?
Video icon Q&A How Common are Affairs?
Video icon Q&A Will Contacting the Affair Partner Help Me Forgive?
Video icon Q&A How Will I Know When I've Completely Forgiven Him?