How Do Emotional Affairs Start?
An emotional affair rarely ever seems like an affair in the beginning. It could start off as someone sending you a message, asking how you are doing. Yet, if you both start to share your feelings, there is an opportunity to create intimacy—whether that was the goal or not. Without realizing what is happening, you […]
Can a Married Couple Ever Recover From Infidelity?
Your spouse strayed. Broke their vow to be with you and only you. It’s a devastating spiral of emotions, and it might seem like the marriage is never going to survive. Yet, there are married couples who do overcome such betrayals and come out stronger rather than getting divorced. If you and your spouse want […]
Marriage vs Long-Term Affair: What if You Love Them Both?
What happens when your long-term affair has been found out? Most of the time, there is the ultimatum of ending the affair and remaining faithful to your spouse or getting a divorce. If only things were that clean-cut. There is really no easy pathway through the fallout of infidelity—not for you, your spouse, or your […]
What Leads To Infidelity in a Marriage?
Being married means vows were made, many associated with loyalty and fidelity. For many people, the thought of cheating on the person they love is painful. And if you love someone, you don’t plan on hurting them. Yet, infidelity does happen. Why are people driven to it? What leads to disloyalty in a marriage? Understanding […]
Infidelity Counseling: What is Infidelity Therapy?
Unfaithfulness is catastrophic. It will rock the foundations of even the strongest relationships and leave those affected wondering why it happened. Can your relationship ever recover? While it might not seem possible at first, you can rise above infidelity with your partner at your side. But you shouldn’t do it alone. By speaking with an […]
Can You Have PTSD Over a Partner Cheating?
A common phrase we hear often is that “love is war.” You know it can be a constant battle, that it’s not always going to be easy. Still, you fall in love with someone special, you say the vows to be faithful, and then, out of nowhere, you are blindsided by a cold truth. They […]
How Do Affairs End Usually?
One-night-stands. Emotional entanglements at work. Serious relationships with another individual that goes on for months. There are many forms of infidelity that an unfaithful partner can commit. Yet, most extramarital affairs tend to fizzle out eventually. Like a chapter in a book, affairs come to a close for a couple of different reasons, but the […]
How Do You Stop an Emotional Affair?
Most people have a clear idea of infidelity. For example, when you’re in a monogamous relationship but sleep with an outside person, it’s obviously cheating. That’s undeniable. But what happens when there is no physical intimacy, only emotional? Does emotional investment in someone else outside of the relationship still count as infidelity? An emotional affair […]
Can You Forgive a Long Term Affair?
Long-term infidelity is a kind of betrayal that isn’t easily fixed. Emotions are going to run rampant because you think of all the ways the cheater has betrayed you throughout the years. All the times they weren’t there because they were with someone else. Once discovered, a long-term affair brings you to an ultimatum: Do […]
Are You In A Time-Starved Marriage?
Time. It’s the one commodity on the planet that we can’t substitute or reproduce. Whether you’re an early riser or you tend to sleep late when the clock strikes twelve, a new day begins. It’s up to each of us how we will invest our time to reap the benefits. When we don’t know how […]