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 Can I Help My Spouse Accept How Long My Affair Lasted?
Video icon Q&A What Does It Look like for the Wayward Spouse to Help the Injured Spouse through Recovery?
Video icon Q&A Will My Husband Ever 'Get It'?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Communicate That It Was Shame That Caused Me to Hide?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Communicate to My Wife That I Wasn't ‘Using’ Her during the Affair?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Move past Resentments and Heal Our Marriage?
Video icon Q&A Shouldn't My Mate Be More Empathetic by Now?
Video icon Q&A What Is the Best Way to Start a Conversation When There Is so Much Hurt between Us?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Husband Heal from My Lack of Empathy?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Let Go of My Resentment?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Handle My Mates Lack of Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Is Calling This a ‘Mistake’ Minimization?
Video icon Q&A Does My Mate 'Get It' or Is He Justifying His Actions?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Convey Grief about My Betrayal Rather than Shame?
Video icon Q&A How Can a Betrayed Spouse Help with Their Unfaithful Partner's Selfish Shame, Guilt and Resentment?
Video icon Q&A How Can a Betrayed Spouse Help with Their Unfaithful Partner's Selfish Shame, Guilt and Resentment?
Video icon Q&A Do You Think We Can Ever Truly Move Forward without Him Seeking Any Help?
Video icon Q&A Can You Help Me Explain Why What My Husband Is Doing Isn't Working?
Video icon Q&A Can Our Marriage Survive If My Husband Never Sees the Affair for What It Was?
Video icon Q&A Can a Person Sincerely Do a ‘180’ on the Way He Treats His Wife after an Affair?
Video icon Q&A Will My Wife Ever Stop Blaming Me for Her Affair?
Video icon Q&A How I Can Get past My Husband's Lack of Seeing the Affair Partner for Who She Is?
Video icon Q&A How I Can Get past My Husband's Lack of Seeing the Affair Partner for Who She Is?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Mate Stop Living in the Past?
Video icon Q&A Will My Husband Ever See the Affair for What It Really Was?
Video icon Q&A Why Do I Find Myself Expressing Emotion through Tears So Much in My Recovery?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Get My Mate to Empathize?
Video icon Q&A What Suggestions Do You Have for Helping My Mate with PTSD?
Video icon Q&A What Should I Do If My Mate Is Struggling to Let Go of the Past?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Deal with His Inability to Face What This Did to Us?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Navigate Giving My Spouse Time to Show Effort?
Video icon Q&A How Will I Ever Move past This and Desire a Connection Again?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Change My Perception of My Mate?
Video icon Q&A What Actions Are Necessary from the Unfaithful during Recovery?
Video icon Q&A What Things Do the Betrayed Need to Consider When Deciding Whether or Not to Reconcile?
Video icon Q&A How Am I Supposed to Change My Perspective of My Mate?
Video icon Q&A How Do We Heal When My Spouse Has No Empathy for Me?
Video icon Q&A How Can Family and Friends Support Us during Recovery?
Text icon How to Not Make Things Worse: Stonewalling
Video icon Q&A How Do I Show My Mate Grace?
Video icon Q&A How Can He Not Get It?
Video icon Q&A Why Would the Unfaithful Shame the Betrayed?
Video icon Q&A How Do I Show Empathy for My Spouse?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Mate Get past 'Why' and 'How Could You Do This' Questions?
Video icon Q&A How Does an Unfaithful Spouse Cope with Continued Shaming from the Betrayed Spouse?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Convey the Importance of Remorse and Grief from My Mate?
Video icon Expert Q&A Preview: Will Mate Ever Understand What They Have Done?
Video icon Q&A What Does Healing Look Like for a Betrayed Husband?
Video icon Q&A When Do We Stop Looking for Details and Move Forward?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Help My Partner with Their Flooding?