The Role of Empathy
Empathy is often misunderstood yet always necessary in recovery. Learn to understand the function of empathy and how it can change your marriage.
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267 Resources
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Video Q&A How Do I Help My Wife Feel Safe When She Is Triggered? 2/28/2024
Video Q&A Is It Possible for Him to Rebuild Real Empathy and Actually Care about Me Again? 2/28/2024
Video Manifestation of Shame Part 1: The Unfaithful 2/21/2024
Video What Does Doing the Work of Infidelity Recovery Mean for the Unfaithful - Infidelity Recovery 1/24/2024
Text Hope For Healing Excerpt: How Does The Unfaithful Make Amends? 12/12/2023
Text Recovering from Infidelity: Difficulties with Intimacy 11/28/2023
Video Q&A How Do I Show Empathy Towards My Wife after Her Revenge Affair When She Refuses to Give Full Disclosure? 8/15/2023
Text Denial and Recovery After an Affair 7/05/2023
Video Q&A How Can I Continue to Be Empathetic to Her If in Spite of All I Do, It Is Still Not Enough? 6/16/2023
Text What Is the Cost of Forgiving Infidelity? 5/10/2023
Video Q&A I’m Losing Compassion for My Mate. What Can I Do? 5/02/2023
Video Q&A How Can an Unfaithful Spouse Develop Emotional Intelligence? 9/13/2022
Text Intrusive Thoughts After the Affair: How to Manage Flooding 8/17/2022
Video Q&A How Long Are You Suppose to Wait for Unfaithful to Take Responsibility and Have Empathy? 8/03/2022
Text Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 2 - Not Getting It 6/01/2022
Video Q&A How Do I Continue Supporting Her While Taking Care of My Heart and Mental Health? 4/20/2022
Video Q&A 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 Can We Move Forward When We Have Both Been Unfaithful? 7/30/2020
Video Q&A How Can I Feel Safe When There Is No Empathy? 7/16/2020
Video Q&A Where Is the Empathy for Me? 4/30/2020
Video Q&A Are There Questions That Would Make the Empathy Exercise More Productive and Healing? 4/16/2020
Video Q&A What Is Hindering My Mate from Showing Empathy? 1/31/2020
Video Q&A Can You Help Me Understand Why My Mate Won't Make Amends? 11/22/2019
Video Q&A Why Is My Spouse Causing This Pain Instead of Showing Empathy? 11/21/2019
Video Q&A Can You Help My Understand Why the Empathy Exercises Have Been so Difficult for My Mate? 11/14/2019
Video Q&A Will I Ever Fully Understand My Mate's Pain? 10/16/2019
Video Q&A How Do I Show My Wife I Get It? 10/02/2019
Video Q&A Can Minimizing Childhood Trauma Affect the Ability to Take Responsibility and Show Empathy during Recovery? 9/13/2019
Video Q&A Why Is My Spouse Having a Difficult Time with Empathy When I'm Hurting? 9/11/2019
Text Expectations of Empathy: A Betrayed Spouse’s Journey 6/26/2019
Video Q&A How Do I Help My Spouse Overcome Shame and Humiliation? 5/21/2019
Video Q&A Is There a Difference between Just Getting over What Happened and Forgiveness? 5/21/2019
Video Q&A How Do I Shift the Focus off My Mistakes and onto Healing? 5/21/2019
Video Q&A How Do I Convince My Wife I Love Her and Only Her? 4/30/2019
Video Q&A What Happens If I'm Not Seeing Remorse? 4/30/2019
Video Q&A How Can I Show Empathy without Getting Defensive? 4/30/2019
Video Q&A Why Isn't My Wayward Spouse Pursuing Me? 4/30/2019
Video Q&A How Do You Address Your Wounds While at the Same Time Feeling Remorse for Your Mate? 4/17/2019
Video Q&A Why Am I Struggling with Compassion and Understanding? 4/10/2019
Video Q&A Should I Try to Make Amends for My Part in the Failed Recovery? 3/13/2019
Video Q&A How Do I Help My Spouse? 3/06/2019
Video Q&A How Can My Mate Help Me Overcome the Loss? 3/04/2019
Video Q&A How Does a Betrayed Spouse Get past the Hurtful Words Said by the Wayward Spouse? 3/04/2019
Video Q&A What Does It Mean to Be a Safe Place for the Betrayed's Anger? 1/22/2019
Video Q&A What If I Don’t Feel Guilty? 12/14/2018
Video Q&A Should I Insist or Let It Go? 12/12/2018
Video Q&A How Can I Communicate That I Understand My Mates Pain? 12/05/2018
Video Q&A Why Isn’t My Mate Showing Empathy? 11/28/2018
Video Q&A Is Our Marriage Doomed Because My Mate Is Unwilling to Make Amends? 11/26/2018

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