Safety in Recovery

The hallmark of any healthy recovery is safety. Both spouses have to feel safe in order to rebuild a strong, new marriage from the ashes of the old one. Learn how to make your mate feel safe and why it is so important that you do.

1115 Resources
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Video icon Q&A How Do I Heal When I Feel He’s Lying and Still Entangled with a Coworker?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Ever Feel Safe with This History of Deceit?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Proceed without Acknowledgement That It Was an Affair?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Tell Others about Our Recovery and How Do I Handle Being Triggered While Seeing Clients?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Handle Running into the Affair Partner Now That the Affair Is Over?
Video icon Q&A What's Your Take on an Unfaithful Wife Who Still Blames the Marriage for the Affair 1 Year from Discovery?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Spouse When He Is Drowning in Shame?
Video icon Q&A Should I Not Bring up the Affair Again?
Video icon Q&A What Do I Do with a Spouse That Blames Me for the Affair?
Video icon Q&A Am I Being Emotionally Abused since His Affair?
Video icon Q&A What Safe Questions Can I Ask to Regain Our Openness but without Causing Me Pain?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get past the Fears of What He Will Do If I Leave Him?
Video icon Q&A Do We Revert Back to Our Old State Once the Threat Disappears?
Video icon Q&A Is It Okay to Let the Affair Partner Know That I Forgive Her?
Video icon Q&A Is It Therapeutic for People to Know about My Affair?
Video icon Q&A Where Do I Go from Here?
Video icon Q&A Is Asking Questions Abusive?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Support Him When He Struggles to Be Safe for Us?
Video icon Q&A Will Marriage Therapy Work If the Unfaithful Spouse Doesn't Have to Discuss What Happened?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Know If a Counselor Is a Good Fit?
Video icon Q&A What Is a Reasonable Expectation When I Share a Wound with My Mate?
Video icon Q&A Is It Beneficial to Read My Mates Journaling during Hope for Healing?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Explain What the Word 'Safe' Means to Me?
Video icon Q&A Is It Possible for Him to Change Enough Where I Feel Can Safe in the Future?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Handle My Fear of Contact with the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A Is This Level of Anger Normal When Recovering from an Affair?
Video icon Q&A He Says I'm 50% Responsible for His Affair. Is That a Sign of Denial?
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 What Does Consent to Sex Look Like in Marriage?
Video icon Q&A How Often Do the Betrayed Spouses of the Unfaithful Partners Get Together?
Video icon Q&A What Can We Expect from EMS Online?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Know If My Mate Is Really Changing?
Video icon Q&A Why Does He Say He Wants to Save the Marriage?
Video icon Q&A What Should We Discuss When We Check-In with Each Other?
Video icon Q&A Is This All Part of the Process or Is It Something Else?
Video icon Q&A Should We Throw in the Towel before Things Get Worse?
Video icon Q&A What Do We Tell Our Kids regarding the Infidelities?
Video icon Q&A Should I Continue Forward or Wait until He Wants to Recommit to Us?
Video icon Q&A Should I Continue to Verify My Spouse's Honesty?
Video icon Q&A How Long Should I Wait for My Spouse to Overcome Ambivalence and Make a Decision?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Wife Overcome Her Shame?
Video icon Q&A Is My Wife Safe?
Video icon Q&A Can My Deceitful and Unfaithful Spouse Really Change?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Encourage My Spouse to Engage in Healing Conversations?
Video icon Q&A Is It Okay for My Mate to Have Contact with My Affair Partner?
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 Manage Family Introductions with the Child Born from an Affair?
Video icon Q&A Should I Be Worried about My Spouse Communicating with My Affair Partner's Spouse?