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.

1103 Resources
Type Title Posted
Video icon Q&A How Can I Learn to Cope and Handle the Hurt?
Video icon Q&A How Can She Be So Kind Now after the Way She Treated Me Just a Year Ago?
Video icon Q&A What Do I Do with This Anger and Loss of Trust We Had Worked Hard to Gain?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Express Hurt and Anger but Not Shame My Spouse?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Possibly Turn around the Tone and Momentum?
Video icon Q&A Where Do I Go from Here?
Video icon Q&A Should My Wife Offer Amends and/or Disclosure to Her Ex Husband?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Trust Someone Who Has Manipulated Me So Much?
Video icon Q&A Is Our Church Safe?
Video icon Q&A Is He Relapsing?
Video icon Q&A Should We Change Churches?
Video icon Q&A He Blames His Addiction on My Lack of Connection and I Blame My Lack of Connection on His Addiction.
Video icon Q&A How Can I Be Assertive without Being Aggressive about His Recovery?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Get through This without Being Together?
Video icon Q&A Is It Healthy for Me to Withdraw My Commitment for Complete Honesty?
Video icon Q&A Should I Be Worried That He Hasn't Completed His 4th Step in 18 Months of Recovery?
Video icon Q&A What Is Shaming?
Video icon Q&A Should I Be Worried about a Person from My Mates Past?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Continue to Support Myself and Keep Our Tenuous Truce without Burning Out?
Video icon Q&A When Does Anger Become Emotional Abuse?
Video icon Q&A Am I Being Passive Agressive?
Video icon Q&A Should Communication with Counselors Be Enough for Me to Feel Supported?
Video icon Q&A What does He Need to Do to Get It?
Video icon Q&A How do I deal with his lack of empathy?
Video icon Q&A Is my loneliness an excuse to hold onto our marriage?
Video icon Q&A How can I regain trust after this setback?
Video icon Q&A How do we handle the details?
Video icon Q&A Is it a good idea to move out for a temporary separation?
Video icon Q&A How do I get my unfaithful spouse to cooperate?
Video icon Q&A What can I do to help my parents understand the level in which I have been hurt?
Video icon Q&A Is there hope or should I follow through with divorce?
Video icon Q&A How can I regain trust after this setback?
Video icon Q&A What does Working Through this in a healthy way look like for me and my children?
Video icon Q&A How do I Deal With My Wife’s Ambivalence?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Bring up a Situation I'm Uncomfortable With?
Video icon Q&A Can you Explain the statement ‘Love Acts in the Best Interest of Another person’?
Video icon Q&A Is This as Good as it Gets?
Video icon Q&A What Should I Do about His Behavior towards Me?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Handle Him Working Long Distance with My Lack of Trust?
Video icon Q&A How Can She Help Me Rebuild My Trust in Her?
Video icon Q&A Is This a Reasonable Expectation to Ensure Our Son's Safety?
Video icon Q&A Can You Expand Your Thoughts on Financial Infidelity?
Video icon Q&A Will Contacting the Affair Partner Help Me Forgive?
Video icon Q&A Why Would I Stay with Him?
Video icon Q&A Can You Share More about the Detox Phase for the Unfaithful Spouse?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Request a Polygraph from My Mate?
Video icon Q&A When Do You Know It's as Good as It's Going to Get?
Video icon Q&A Is His Lack of Transparency Grounds for Divorce?
Video icon Q&A What Is a Reasonable Shift of Expectations for My Mate in Recovery?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Regain My Confidence as a Mom When the Principals I Teach Didn't Protect Me?