Q&A Recovery Library

Thousands of questions answered by infidelity expert Rick Reynolds, LCSW and other experts from one trusted source. Gain insights from professionals who not only have specialized in treating infidelity for decades but also have healed from infidelity personally.
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Video icon Q&A Should a Wayward Spouse Be Allowed to Have Friends of the Opposite Gender?
Video icon Q&A How do I Heal?
Video icon Q&A Is He Just Not Interested in Me or Did He Magically Figure Out How to Treat a Woman?
Video icon Q&A When an Intrusive Thought Occurs, How Do I Know the Difference between Suppressing and Ignoring That Thought versus Not Giving It Any Airtime, Capturing It, and Redirecting My Thinking to Something Else?
Video icon Q&A Am I Being Closed Minded?
Video icon Q&A How Should I Deal With Characteristics That I Do Not Possess, Yet Seem to Have Been Sought after by My Spouse in the Affair Partners?
Video icon Q&A What Do I Do to Protect My, and My Children’s, Heart?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Get To a More Balanced Psyche?
Video icon Q&A Is It Wrong to Feel a Sense of a Sexual Revolution, after His Affair?
Video icon Q&A What Do We Do When We Both Cheated, If My Betrayal Was ‘Worse’ than His?
Video icon Q&A Am I Choosing Closeness over Intimacy When I Don’t Let My Mate Know About Intrusive Thoughts When We Are Lovemaking?
Video icon Q&A Will the Betrayed’s Irritability Ever Go Away?
Video icon Q&A What Should We Tell the Kids If They Ask Why Dad Is Living in the Basement?
Video icon Q&A How Can My Wife Believe That She Fulfilled Her Fantasy If She Also Says That’s Not Who She Truly Is?
Video icon Q&A Is This Finally Enough to Divorce and End Recovery Work?
Video icon Q&A What Type of Recovery Program Does My Husband Need?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Get My Emotionally Unavailable Husband to Walk toward the Storm Instead of 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 Are My Expectations Too High?
Video icon Q&A What Do We Do When the Affair Partner Refuses to Cooperate about the Child?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Set Boundaries If They Keep Being Disregarded and Violated?
Video icon Q&A Should I Change Churches or Should I Just Get Over It since It Was All in His Fantasies?
Video icon Q&A What Should I Do With the Saved Messages between My Husband and His Affair Partners?
Video icon Q&A Why Is He Okay as Long as I Don’t Talk about It? How Can We Get past This If He’s Unwilling to Answer Questions?
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?
Video icon Q&A Should We Abstain from Sex at This Point in Our Recovery?
Video icon Q&A At What Point Is It Unhealthy to Be Avoiding Events Because the Affair Partner May Go or Avoiding Places Because They Once Went There Together?
Video icon Q&A Why Is My Wayward Spouse Playing the Victim in Our Relationship?
Video icon Q&A Can His Expressed Feelings of Love Be True When He Was Deceiving and Betraying Me?
Video icon Q&A How Much Should I Allow My Hurt Spouse to Vent and Control Conversations?
Video icon Q&A What Can I Ask My Spouse to Do That Also Requires the Same Amount of Effort in the Process of Recovery?
Video icon Q&A Should My Unfaithful Spouse Make a Symbolic Sacrifice to Help My Healing?
Video icon Q&A What Type of Dilemma Am I In?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Betrayed Wife with Her Depression That Has Escalated Dramatically since Discovery?
Video icon Q&A Is He Sincere?
Video icon Q&A What Practical Steps Can I Take To Help Me Overcome the Overwhelming Moments in Recovery?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get My Husband to Not Only Acknowledge the Humiliation upon Our Family and Me, but Also to Fix the Amount of Humiliation He’s Placed on Our Family to Our Town?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Deal With These Graphics Thoughts?
Video icon Q&A Is It Common for the Wayward Spouse to Go Back to the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A Did I Do the Right Thing by Sharing My Trigger and How Do I Handle This Situation in the Future?
Video icon Q&A Should I Continue EMS Online on My Own?
Video icon Q&A When Does Trauma Turn Into PTSD and Grief Turn Into Depression?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Make Progress and How Can I Trust Him?
Video icon Q&A Why Is My Husband Deleting Messages to His Mother before I See Them?
Video icon Q&A Is It Appropriate to Try Separating While Also Helping the Betrayed Spouse Heal?
Video icon Q&A What Do I Do about a Sex Tape That My Spouse Made with the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Move On When I Feel like He’s Lying about What Really Happened?
Video icon Q&A What Progressional Steps Are Most Helpful in Recovery from Pornography Addiction and Extramarital Affairs?
Video icon Q&A Should I do EMDR or Harboring Hope First?
Video icon Q&A What Is the Role of Dopamine in Marital Sex?