Recovery Fundamentals

Start with the basics when first walking the road to recovery. Developing a systematic plan for recovery will enable you to stick to your basic recovery principles even when things get tough.

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Text icon Pleasing Versus Loving
Text icon Healing After the Affair: Whether or Not to Get Help
Video icon Q&A Any Advice on How, When & Where It’s Best to Share Our Story?
Text icon The Mystery of Change
Video icon Q&A How Can the Unfaithful Work through the Deception Regarding the Infidelity?
Video icon Q&A What Kind of Professional Help Should I Seek?
Text icon The Proper Use of Boundaries - Creating Space for Healing and Change
Video icon Q&A What Can We Do Differently?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Move Forward When I’m Not Sure He Can Admit to Himself What His Demons Are?
Text icon Surviving Infidelity: What Do We Tell the Kids?
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
Text icon Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 4 - Not Grieving the Loss
Video icon Q&A How Do My Wife and I Avoid Pretending Normal and Actually Tackle the Issue of Infidelity?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Respond to the Betrayed’s Triggers When It’s Affecting My Mental Health Now?
Video icon Q&A Am I Depriving Myself of True Healing in the Long Term If We Are Using This Method to Cope?
Text icon Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 3 - Hiding in Denial
Video icon Q&A How Do You Know If You Are Grieving or If You Are Wallowing?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Channel My Own Genuine Positivity and Stop Being Concerned or Insulted by His Behaviors or Attitudes?
Video icon Q&A Where Does a Failed Polygraph Leave Us in Regards to a Timeline in Recovery?
Video icon Q&A Can You Help Us Understand Our Love Language Differences?
Video icon Q&A How Do You Make Your Partner Feel Understood, Trusted, like They Matter, and That It’s Ok to Make Mistakes, Without Enabling Bad Behavior?
Video icon Tony & Debbie Mentor Video
Video icon Limerence: Infatuation and How It Works
Video icon Q&A What Is the Best Way to Discuss the Questions That Most Wayward Spouses Get from the Betrayed?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Let Myself Be Happy Again?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Handle Defensiveness?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Move Forward Knowing That He Already Has The Mindset That This Could Happen Again?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Convince Her to Engage More in the Group Therapy?
Video icon Q&A What Can I Do to Support Him but Also Be Heard?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Communicate So That He Does Not Feel Condemned?
Video icon Q&A How Do You Heal the Relationship with the Betrayed’s Extended Family?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Move Forward after Several Relapses?
Video icon What Is A Forgiveness Letter?
Video icon Q&A How Should I as a Wayward Spouse Approach My Spouse’s Continual Desire for Reassurance?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Create a Shared View of Our Relationship When We Have No Valid Timelines to Reference?
Video icon Q&A How Long Does It Take for Desire for My Mate to Return after Severing Ties with My Affair Partners?
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 How Can I Get To a More Balanced Psyche?
Video icon Announcing NEW Infidelity Video Blog: Songs for the Soul
Video icon Q&A What Do We Do When We Both Cheated, If My Betrayal Was ‘Worse’ than His?
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 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 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?
Text icon Social Shame: Four Ways to Stay In It
Text icon Social Shame: Surviving Infidelity Isn’t Enough
Text icon Social Shame: Have You Been Dishonored?
Text icon Social Shame: Understanding the Paralysis of it
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 The Use and Abuse of the Polygraph