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Your Questions About Infidelity, Part 1
150 150 Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D.

Listen questions about infidelity and cheating answered here. Just part 1. How to deal with cheating, physical or emotional. Infidelity and affairs hurt many marriages. Learn how to recover.Someone cheated.  What now?  Can a marriage survive infidelity, either physical or emotional?  Can a relationship recover after an affair?

Over the past while, I have been answering listener questions (you can submit by emailing here). And this week, we turn our attention to the subject of infidelity and affairs (both physical and emotional).

To be honest, I receive more questions on this topic than any other (which is the reason I wrote the book on recovering from an affair). So, this is only part 1 of my answers.

Affairs and infidelity affect many marriages.  They are a risk during a marriage crisis, and they deepen a  crisis already happening. Infidelity is less a cause of the actual crisis, and more a symptom.  But a discovered affair is often the first clear sign of the depths of crisis.

How do you deal with your emotions?  How do you deal with your spouse?  And how about that other person?

We touch on this and many other issues in the episode below.  Listen in.

RELATED RESOURCES
Book:  Recovering From The Affair
Prior Affair Resources
Aftermath Of An Affair
Importance of Forgiveness
Importance of Apology
System To Save Your Marriage (including Audio on Dealing With Affair)

 

The Fantasy and Fallacy of Infidelity
150 150 Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D.

FalacyFantasyInfidelityInfidelity is powerful. And destructive.

It is also powered by fantasy. Oh, and did I mention the fallacy of infidelity?

We don’t have clear figures about infidelity.  Estimates are that around 1/5th to 1/4th of people, male and female, commit infidelity.  This estimate is based upon physical infidelity.

Emotional infidelity is much harder to track.  Many people are unable to distinguish between

emotional infidelity and “good friend,” or “we just talk.” So, many commit emotional infidelity, but aren’t clear about it.

In this week’s podcast episode, I expose the fantasy and fallacy that fuels infidelity.

RELATED RESOURCES:
Infidelity Recovery Podcasts
Book:  Recovering From The Affair
Save The Marriage System