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 We Cope with Differing Marriage Histories?
Video icon Q&A What Do You Mean by 'My Mate Is Never My Problem. My Mate Only Reveals the Problem in Me'?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Get My Wife to See Me in a More Positive Light?
Video icon Q&A What Is a Reasonable Expectation When I Share a Wound with My Mate?
Video icon Q&A Is It Beneficial to Read My Mates Journaling during Hope for Healing?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Explain What the Word 'Safe' Means to Me?
Video icon Q&A Am I Crazy for Not Wanting My Husband to Be around His Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A Should We Divorce Because We Can't Respect Each Other's Feelings?
Video icon Q&A Is There Hope for Change?
Video icon Q&A What Should We Discuss When We Check-In with Each Other?
Video icon Q&A Letting Go: Explain the Task of Rewriting History
Video icon Q&A How Do I Help My Wife Overcome Her Shame?
Video icon Q&A Should We Move to Get Away from the Affair Partner?
Video icon Q&A How Long Is Long Enough?
Video icon Expert Q&A Preview: How Can I Give My Wife Hope after Betraying Her So Deeply?
Video icon Q&A How Can I Hear His Heart?
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 He Blames His Addiction on My Lack of Connection and I Blame My Lack of Connection on His Addiction.
Video icon Q&A Am I Being Passive Agressive?
Video icon Q&A How Will My Spouse See That I Never Loved My Affair Partner?
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 Reconciliation Possible with a Covert Narcissist?
Video icon Q&A Is Reconciliation Possible with a Covert Narcissist?
Video icon Q&A What Should I Do about His Behavior towards Me?
Video icon Q&A Have We Traded One Self Centered Lifestyle for Another?
Video icon Q&A When Do Unfaithful Women Typically Begin to Show Empathy?
Video icon Q&A How can we Help Her Heal from Her Past Actions?
Video icon Q&A How can we Achieve Transparency Without me Policing my Husband?
Video icon Q&A How can Our Marriage Heal When Mental Illness Prevents Rational Affair Related Conversations?
Video icon Q&A Can you Help me Understand Men and Intimacy Avoidance?
Video icon Q&A How can I Effectively Set a No Touch Boundary with My Husband?
Video icon Q&A How do I Let go of my Desire to See Him Suffer and Broken?
Video icon Q&A What Should I Do as the Unfaithful When Triggers Arise?
Video icon Q&A How can a Betrayed Spouse Show Compassion for an Unempathetic Unfaithful Spouse?
Video icon Q&A What is it that I'm Sacrificing as the Unfaithful Spouse?
Video icon Q&A How can I Show my Wife I'm Trying to Learn Empathy?
Video icon Q&A After his Affair, he Changed and now does Everything Right. Why do I Feel so Empty?
Video icon Q&A Why Did I Have an Affair? Was I My True Self During My Affair?
Video icon Q&A When is the Best Time to Bring up Hurt Feelings?
Video icon Q&A I want Recovery to Work, but Things Aren't Changing. Will it Get Better?
Video icon Q&A Are these Requests Appropriate for me to Ask for?
Video icon Q&A How do I Handle my Wife's Lack of Empathy?
Video icon Q&A Did we Miss the Point of the 20 Cost Exercise?
Video icon Q&A Is this as Good as it Gets in Our Recovery?
Video icon Q&A How do I Deal With 'His and Hers' Affairs?
Video icon Q&A Why Can't He, and Will He Ever, Understand My Pain?
Video icon Q&A How Can We Get Past Our Difference of Opinion With Reconciliation and Forgiveness?
Video icon Q&A Since the Affair Story Still Hurts Him, Should We Let Sleeping Dogs Lie?