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.
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Rebuilding Trust After An Affair
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Ending an Affair: Lock the Door Part 1
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1075 Resources
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Video Q&A What Is the Best Way to Set Boundaries in the Workplace? 8/15/2023
Video Q&A Are the Boundaries My Mate Has Placed on Our Conversations a Red Flag in Recovery? 8/15/2023
Text Discovery: Why Do I Want to Know? 6/14/2023
Text Discovery: Processing the Details of the Affair 6/07/2023
Text Coping with Infidelity: The 2 Stages of Pain 5/31/2023
Video Q&A Why Do I Still Respond Physically like I Am Lying When I’m Telling the Truth? 5/19/2023
Video Q&A Are Any Lasting Feelings for the Affair Partner Permitted? 5/19/2023
Video Q&A If There Is a Future for Our Marriage, Would You See the Journey to Be Any Different than Normal? 5/19/2023
Video Q&A Is It Necessary for Him to Be Proactive or Should I Be Happy He’s Doing What I Ask of Him? 4/12/2023
Text Discovery: Part 3 - Guidelines for Discovery 3/22/2023
Video Q&A How Do I Handle My Spouse’s Siblings? 3/17/2023
Text Discovery: Part 2 - Advice For The Wayward Spouse 3/15/2023
Video Q&A What Action Do You Recommend If My Mates Behavior Doesn’t Change? 3/02/2023
Video Q&A How Do I Handle My Mate Weaponizing Information That I’m Sharing with Them? 1/11/2023
Video Q&A Are My Boundaries for My Spouse Unreasonable? 1/11/2023
Video Q&A How Can We Get Anywhere If a Calm Conversation Can’t Happen about His Recovery or Betrayals? 12/06/2022
Video Q&A How Can My Spouse Work with the Affair Partner and Still Be Okay? 12/06/2022
Video Q&A Any Advice on How, When & Where It’s Best to Share Our Story? 11/03/2022
Video Q&A Am I Struggling Because I Still Feel Unsafe in Recovery? 10/13/2022
Video Q&A Is This an Appropriate Deal-Breaker? 8/26/2022
Video Q&A How Do I Keep My Boundaries Strong in a Place of Leadership? 7/07/2022
Video Q&A What Are the Signs I Should Run and Not Bother Wasting My Time or Emotions on Trying to Make My Marriage Work? 7/01/2022
Text Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 4 - Not Grieving the Loss 6/15/2022
Video Q&A How Do I Respond to the Betrayed’s Triggers When It’s Affecting My Mental Health Now? 6/14/2022
Video Q&A What Do I Do If My Spouse Works with Their Affair Partner? 5/24/2022
Video 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? 5/24/2022
Text Are You Vulnerable to an Affair? Part II: Marital Vulnerability 5/18/2022
Video Q&A How Do I Continue Supporting Her While Taking Care of My Heart and Mental Health? 4/20/2022
Video Q&A Is It OK for the Wayward Spouse to Keep in Touch with Affair Partners from the past That Happened Years before Us? 4/20/2022
Video Q&A How Do I Move Forward Knowing That He Already Has The Mindset That This Could Happen Again? 4/08/2022
Video Q&A How Do We Move Forward after Several Relapses? 4/06/2022
Video Q&A How Should I Handle My Spouse Threatening to Harm Me? 3/10/2022
Video Q&A How Should I as a Wayward Spouse Approach My Spouse’s Continual Desire for Reassurance? 3/10/2022
Video Q&A How Do I Emotionally Connect with Someone Who Treats Me This Way? 3/10/2022
Video Q&A How Long Should I Accept and Validate His Exaggerated Reactions as a Result of My Previously Reckless Behaviors? 2/17/2022
Video Q&A Do You Agree It’s Necessary to Re-Establish No Contact? 2/17/2022
Video Q&A Should a Wayward Spouse Be Allowed to Have Friends of the Opposite Gender? 2/17/2022
Video Q&A How Can We Set Boundaries If They Keep Being Disregarded and Violated? 12/17/2021
Video Q&A How Much Should I Allow My Hurt Spouse to Vent and Control Conversations? 11/19/2021
Video Q&A How Do I Deal With This When I Cannot Reasonably Ask Her to Quit Working nor Can I Check In Frequently to Make Sure It's Not Happening Again? 8/17/2021
Video Q&A How Do I Handle Other Counselor’s ‘Okaying’ My Husband’s Continuation of His Rock-Concert Gigs? 8/17/2021
Video Q&A Should I Tell the Affair Partner’s Wife about the Affair? 8/17/2021
Video Q&A How Do My Spouse and I Get On the Same Level When It Comes to Appropriate Communication to His Affair Partner about Their Daughter? 8/02/2021
Video Q&A Is Location-Sharing and Access to Phones Recommended? 7/13/2021
Video Q&A How Can I Stop the Feeling That I Constantly Need to Check on My Wayward Spouse for Safety? 7/13/2021
Video Q&A How Best Do I Ask for This Information So That He Understands the Level of Transparency I Need to Feel Safe? 7/13/2021
Video Q&A How Do I Deal With the Physical Distance between Me and My Husband during Recovery? 7/13/2021
Video Q&A When My Mate Floods, Why Do I Get Distressed In Turn? 7/08/2021
Video Q&A What Are the Best Boundaries to Make When My Husband and I Are Having a Discussion about My Healing and He Starts to Get Really Angry? 6/16/2021
Video Q&A Should I Be Considering Any Restrictions on Her Access to Our Children If She Continues to Act Out? 6/16/2021

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