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.

300 Resources
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Video icon Q&A How Do I Emotionally Connect with Someone Who Treats Me This Way?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Move Forward When We Have Both Been Unfaithful?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Feel Safe When There Is No Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Where Is the Empathy for Me?
Video icon Q&A Are There Questions That Would Make the Empathy Exercise More Productive and Healing?
Video icon Q&A What Is Hindering My Mate from Showing Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Can You Help Me Understand Why My Mate Won't Make Amends?
Video icon Q&A Why Is My Spouse Causing This Pain Instead of Showing Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Can You Help My Understand Why the Empathy Exercises Have Been so Difficult for My Mate?
Video icon Q&A Will I Ever Fully Understand My Mate's Pain?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Show My Wife I Get It?
Video icon Q&A Can Minimizing Childhood Trauma Affect the Ability to Take Responsibility and Show Empathy during Recovery?
Video icon Q&A Why Is My Spouse Having a Difficult Time with Empathy When I'm Hurting?
Text icon Expectations of Empathy: A Betrayed Spouse’s Journey
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Spouse Overcome Shame and Humiliation?
Video icon Q&A Is There a Difference between Just Getting over What Happened and Forgiveness?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Shift the Focus off My Mistakes and onto Healing?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Convince My Wife I Love Her and Only Her?
Video icon Q&A What Happens If I'm Not Seeing Remorse?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Show Empathy without Getting Defensive?
Video icon Q&A Why Isn't My Wayward Spouse Pursuing Me?
Video icon Q&A How Do You Address Your Wounds While at the Same Time Feeling Remorse for Your Mate?
Video icon Q&A Why Am I Struggling with Compassion and Understanding?
Video icon Q&A Should I Try to Make Amends for My Part in the Failed Recovery?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Spouse?
Video icon Q&A How Can My Mate Help Me Overcome the Loss?
Video icon Q&A How Does a Betrayed Spouse Get past the Hurtful Words Said by the Wayward Spouse?
Video icon Q&A What Does It Mean to Be a Safe Place for the Betrayed's Anger?
Video icon Q&A What If I Don’t Feel Guilty?
Video icon Q&A Should I Insist or Let It Go?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Communicate That I Understand My Mates Pain?
Video icon Q&A Why Isn’t My Mate Showing Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Is Our Marriage Doomed Because My Mate Is Unwilling to Make Amends?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Find Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Am I Shaming My Husband When I Bring up His past Behaviors?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Live with a Spouse That Is Grieving the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Mate Move past Their Resentments?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Heal When We Have Both Been Unfaithful?
Video icon Hope Rising 2018: Apology from the Unfaithful
Video icon Q&A How Can I Fix What I've Done?
Video icon Q&A Can Empathy Be Learned?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Both Deal with My Mates Shame?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Mate with Rejection?
Video icon Q&A How Do I State Expectations without Being Codependent?
Video icon Q&A Will My Desire for My Mate Return?
Video icon Q&A How Long Should I Wait for Consistent Honesty?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Handle my Mate’s Questions about the Affair?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Mate Create Safety in Our Recovery?
Video icon Q&A Where Is the Humility and Empathy?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Prove to My Mate I'm Telling the Truth?