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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Video icon Q&A Can You Explain Compartmentalization in General and in This Type of Situation Specifically?
Video icon Q&A Is Overcoming an Affair Similar to Overcoming Alcohol Addiction?
Text icon Surviving Infidelity Part 1: What Do You Need to Know?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Move Forward If My Mate Is Hard-Hearted and Has Yet to Repent?
Video icon Does Time Heal All Wounds? Healing After An Affair
Video icon Q&A How Can I Be Empathetic without Allowing My Shame to Cause More Damage?
Video icon Q&A What Does Transparency in Marriage Look Like?
Video icon Q&A At What Point Is Repair Work, Healing, and Reconciliation Attempts Futile?
Video icon Q&A Is This a Safe Way of Dealing with This Problem?
Video icon Q&A How Do Multiple Affairs Affect the Recovery Timeline?
Video icon Q&A How Exactly Does One Transform the Pain?
Video icon Q&A What Helps the Wayward Spouse Transition from Shame to Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Is There a Difference between Processing Grief and Self-Pity?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Deal with the Grief?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Start Fresh in the Midst of Recovery?
Video icon Q&A What Are Your Thoughts on Splitting the Household While Attempting Recovery?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Recover in a Situation like This?
Video icon Q&A Does the Length of the Affair Have Implications for Our Recovery?
Video icon Q&A How Long Do Couples Stay in a State of Ambivalence?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Write a New Story Together?
Video icon Q&A Is It Too Early to Start to Learn about Ourselves, the Recovery Process, and Grow?
Text icon Is It Normal?
Video icon Q&A What Can I Do to Help My Betrayed Spouse with Her Anger and Resentment?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Stay Calm While Talking about the Affair?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Change a Destructive Pattern in Our Marriage?
Video icon Q&A Is My Request for Confrontation Reasonable?
Video icon Expert Q&A Preview: What Boundaries Can I Put in Place That Don’t Sound like Ultimatums?
Video icon Q&A Please Explain in More Detail What Rick Means by His Suggestion?
Video icon Q&A Can past Depression or PTSD Affect the Ability to Show Empathy?
Video icon Q&A How Do the Processes for Recovery and Relapse Prevention Differ for Sex Addicts?
Video icon Q&A What Is a Healthy Boundary for Alcohol in This Situation?
Video icon Q&A What Are Your Thoughts about Our Disclosure Process?
Video icon Q&A I Am Trying to Be Safe for My Wife, but How Can I Feel Safe from Her?
Video icon Q&A What Are Your Suggestions When It’s Hard to Trust?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Maintain Recovery During Times of Crisis?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Husband Understand My Concerns?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Take a Step Forward and Where Do I Go from Here?
Video icon Q&A What Strategies Can I Use for Patience during Recovery?
Video icon Q&A Are There Questions That Would Make the Empathy Exercise More Productive and Healing?
Video icon Q&A Is It Possible for Something like This to Not Change Us?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Get Our Needs Met during Recovery?
Video icon Q&A How Do You Deal with Someone Who Lacks Self Awareness?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Stop This Exhausting, Vicious, Cycle?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Handle My Mate Wanting Me to Hate the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A What More Can Be Done to Save My Marriage?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Make Sure That the past Doesn't Ruin the Present?
Video icon Q&A Is It Possible to Have Significantly Recovered at This Point in Healing?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Find Balance between Healing Myself and Healing Our Relationship?
Video icon Q&A When My Husband Turns My Anger around on Me Is That Gaslighting?
Video icon Q&A What Things Are Considered a Life Squeeze in the Cycle of Failure Exercise?