Rebuilding Trust

In the short run, transparency can take the place of trust until trust is reestablished. Learn the components of trust, how to function in its absence, and what it takes to reconnect.

377 Resources
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Video icon Q&A What Do I Do When They Claim They Don't Remember What They Did During Their Affair?
Text icon Forgiving Infidelity: The Gift of Forgiveness
Video icon Q&A How Can I Even Think About Trust Now?
Text icon The Fear of Vulnerability: Why We Choose Affairs Over Intimacy
Video icon Q&A Am I Crazy for Trying to Trust My Spouse?
Video icon Q&A Why Should I Continue in This Relationship?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Prove to My Betrayed Spouse That I Finally ‘Get It’?
Video icon Q&A After a Polygraph Is Done to Confirm the Couple Is at Ground Zero, What Should Each Partner Expect from the Other Going Forward?
Video icon Q&A How Do You Recommend We Handle Interactions with the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A Are My Requests for Relapse Prevention Measures Unreasonable?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Protect My Own Boundaries While Navigating This Complex Relationship?
Video icon The Number One Question and How to Answer It
Video icon Q&A What Are You Thoughts on Using Parental Control Apps to Create Safety and Rebuild Trust?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Move past This Set-Back in Our Recovery?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Know If My Spouse Really Shut the Door on the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A What Do I Look for to Know the Affair Isn’t Still Happening?
Video icon Q&A Can You Shed Light on Pass/Fail Outcomes and Eye-Scan Polygraph Tests?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Best Deal With This Hurtful Possibility and Begin to Heal from It?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Create Safety When My Husband Had an Emotional Affair with a Coworker for Approximately 7 Years?
Video icon Is My Mate Truly Committed to Recovery?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Rebuild Trust When His Words Still Feel Scripted and Devoid of Genuine Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Will She Ever Tell the Truth Without Being Backed Into a Corner?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Respond If I Don’t Believe My Spouse?
Video icon The Process of Healing from Infidelity
Video icon Q&A What Advice Do You Have for Polygraphs, Anxiety Induced False Positives, and Full Disclosure During Recovery?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Believe My Mate When They Say the Affair Is Over?
Video icon Q&A Do I Have to Take a Polygraph?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Reconnect if I Don’t Know What Happened?
Video icon Q&A Am I Asking for Too Much Control or Is the Wayward Spouse Being Unreasonable With a Lack of Boundaries?
Video icon Romanticism: Don't Believe the Lie
Text icon Pimping Tenderness & Grooming Behaviors
Video icon Betrayal Trauma: Tips for Talking with Your Spouse
Video icon Creating Healing Spaces
Video icon The Truth About Lying
Video icon Psychological Abuse Within Infidelity
Text icon How to Survive Infidelity
Text icon Why Did My Spouse Cheat? A Crucial Question In Healing After An Affair
Video icon Q&A What Does Making Restitution Look Like in a Marriage after an Affair?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Tell My Unfaithful Spouse I Need Access to His Devices to Feel Safe?
Video icon Q&A If a Person Is Taking Medications and Has Gone Thru 6 Rounds of Chemo before Taking a Polygraph, Could This Give a False Reading?
Video icon Q&A Do I Have the Right to Know What My Spouse Is Doing to Monitor Me?
Video icon Q&A Why Do I Still Respond Physically like I Am Lying When I’m Telling the Truth?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Create a Coherent Story If the Details from My Mate Are Always Changing?
Video icon Q&A How Can Someone Who Has Become Such an Accomplished Liar Prove to the Betrayed Spouse That They Can Be Trusted?
Video icon Q&A How Do You Discern If a Person Is Truly Remorseful and Changing When They Relapse into Blaming the Betrayed?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Approach This Polygraph without Feeling like My Marriage Is on the Line?
Text icon Discovery: Part 1 - How to Handle Discovery
Video icon Q&A How Can I Convince My Mate That I’m Not Talking to the Affair Partner?
Text icon Why is Trusting Again So Hard?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Trust My Mate Who Won’t Be Open with Me?