What scares you more, the thought of your spouse sleeping with someone else or your spouse falling in love with someone else? The latter, right? That’s exactly why emotional affair recovery seems impossible to people who learn that their spouse has been having a very intimate relationship with someone else without even having sex. This…
When a man learns that his wife cheated on him, the effects are profoundly damaging. There are several reasons for this. One is that it emasculates the man, makes him feel like a lesser man, like he wasn’t enough for his wife and that’s why she felt compelled to cheat. Almost all men will immediately…
When men or women learn that their spouse has been having an emotional affair, one of the most troubling questions racing through their minds is whether or not the affair would have progressed into a physical affair had they not been discovered before they had a chance to. Did they really not sleep together? How…
After an affair, a common problem that I hear is that after the injured spouse agrees to stay in the marriage and work on the relationship, the cheating spouse wants to continue as if nothing happened. Of course, this causes tension, resentment and raises doubts about whether the decision to save the marriage was the…
After the long process of rebuilding a marriage after an affair, one of the last hurdles to overcome is often enjoying intimate physical contact again. Many men and women have a very hard time letting their spouse touch them again after an affair. Something as simple as holding hands or allowing the spouse to touch…
When a couple that’s been torn apart by infidelity makes the decision to stick it out and try to save their marriage, the hard part is nowhere near over. The cheating spouse may grow impatient and want to move things along and get back to normal again even as they work on rebuilding the relationship,…
Is your husband saying that he wants to save your marriage but the other woman is still pursuing him? During the affair, your husband may have promised, or at least implied, a new life together with his mistress. Or maybe she simply projected such thoughts in her mind. Whatever the case, breaking up an affair…
Years ago I was talking to someone who’d found out the previous night that her husband was having an affair. She’d barely slept, had no idea what she was going to do with herself and kept talking nervously, so I just listened and let her say whatever she needed to share. When she asked…
Men and women behave differently after their spouse commits adultery. A man whose wife had an affair will usually want to put the episode behind them and pretend it never happened. That doesn’t mean that men forget about it; it’s just easier to cope with that way—for most men. On the other hand, a woman…
The emotional devastation you face when your spouse has cheated on you has the power to suck you down into a vortex of hopelessness and desperation. I’ve heard it described as a sickening cocktail of rage, anguish, anxiety, self-doubt, and sleepless nights. The psychological impact of infidelity is tremendous. Did you know that these emotions…
