Infidelity (AKA cheating, affairs) is a hard thing to experience. It can make you doubt yourself and question everything you thought you knew about your relationship. One of the tricky parts about infidelity is that you can’t clearly define it without a serious conversation with your partner. Sometimes infidelity just involves sex which can be …
Infidelity (cheating, affairs, etc.) is a sensitive topic no matter what your experience with it is. It’s hard to talk about and even harder to know exactly how you would respond if it happened to you. But the most difficult part would be actually experiencing an affair and deciding how to move forward afterwards. Oftentimes …
After you experience infidelity, there’s an endless number of paths you can take. This all starts with one question: do you want to stay together? If the answer is yes, there are a few general types of reconciliation that you can follow from this point on. Read on to learn more about them and how …
Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is a cutting-edge method of intervention. EFT can be helpful for people with depression, anxiety, and even post-traumatic stress, and it comes in many different settings. Some of these are individualized, family, and couples therapy. For this article, though, I will stick to emotionally focused couples therapy (EFCT). The goal of …
Infidelity can definitely be a traumatic experience, especially if you’re the betrayed partner. With traumatic experiences, there can be a variety of triggers (intrusive thoughts and emotions that remind you of a traumatic event). Experiencing infidelity (cheating) can completely destabilize your life. It takes a lot of work to make it through the initial situation, …
Infidelity (AKA cheating) is a massive obstacle for couples to overcome. There are layers of broken trust that would have to be rebuilt for a relationship to continue afterward. With this in mind, it’s easy to see how it can be nearly impossible to save a relationship that’s been tarnished by infidelity. The decision to …
Relationships are challenging. You have to be willing to work with each other and find compromises to your problems. Still, problems can and will appear and threaten your relationship. One of the most common problems is infidelity. Cheating creates an extreme breach of trust and is very hard to come back from. It’s not impossible, …
