This article is part of a three-part series to help couples overcome infidelity and experience affair recovery. In this article: The Road to Affair Recovery Stronger Than Ever Build Greater Trust Build Better Communication Build a Stronger Resolve Build a Deeper Romance Build a Sturdier Foundation Affair Recovery | Turning Marriage Around After an … [Read more...]
Adultery Doesn’t Just Happen; 10 Honest (and Some Ugly) Reasons Why Your Spouse Cheated
Why do people cheat? Chances are when you and your partner entered into your marriage, neither of you intended to break your covenants. So why then does infidelity happen? In this article: How Many Couples Go Through Affairs? Unhappiness Experience and Environment Genetics Sexually Unsatisfied Emotionally Unsatisfied Lost Connection Life Crisis … [Read more...]
I Am in Love With a Married Man: How Do I Let Go?
Dear Dr. Buckingham, I have been dealing with a married man for a while and I know its wrong, but we just got caught up. I want to walk away and just let it all go, but I didn't know it would be this hard. I fell in love with him and I don't know how it happened. I don't want to do this anymore. I Am in Love with a Married Man, How Do I Let Go? Please help, Ms. … [Read more...]
Men: At Last, the One Simple Thing that Women Really Want
Listening to music today is totally different from years ago. Romance has been replaced with role reversal, explicit sex, and stories of unhealthy relationships. Somewhere between the promiscuity and the perceived lack of good men, relationships have gone astray. Both sexes are complaining about the other and it appears that more division, than unity is taking place. In the … [Read more...]
The ‘SCANDAL’ in Dysfunction and Affairs
“I want painful and devastating love!” Yup she said it and we all heard it! Thursday night on another exciting episode of Scandal, Kerry Washington, aka Olivia Pope, told her fiancé in wait, as she bowed out of their engagement that she didn’t want their “simple” love she wanted “painful and devastating love!” For those of you who haven’t seen the show you should know that the … [Read more...]
Could You Survive Infidelity?
"...For better or for worse...in sickness and in health...'til death us do part." Before that, I think it says something about loving, honoring and cherishing each other, right? So, if your spouse decides to break those vows and let's say...have an extra-marital affair, does that justify you to break yours too and leave? There are a lot of different religious stances on … [Read more...]