Tuesday, December 11, 2012

EMOTIONAL INFIDELITY: WHY IT HURTS SO MUCH. (Part 2)


Here are some tips for healing from the pain of an emotional affair.

Healing Phases of Emotional Infidelity

Tip #1: Take Care of Yourself First
When you find out that your spouse has been creating a close relationship with someone else, you are going to feel hurt, betrayed and angry. You need time to discover what you’re feeling, assess why you’re feeling it, and then process those feelings.
I recommend writing out your thoughts as a way to release some of that pent-up emotion. In it, you

Saturday, December 8, 2012

EMOTIONAL INFIDELITY: WHY IT HURTS SO MUCH.


Infidelity of any kind is painful. It shatters your trust in your spouse as well as your heart.
And it’s not just sexual infidelity. Many spouses become victims of emotional infidelity—and feel the pain just as keenly as if their spouse had had sexual relations with the other person.
In this blog, we’ll look at why emotional infidelity hurts so much, and 3 tips for healing if you have been the victim of emotional infidelity. Please keep reading…

Monday, November 26, 2012

3 Common Break-up Drivers (Are You Guilty?)

Are you driving your partner away, and worse—creating the perfect environment for a break-up or divorce?
It’s difficult to accept some responsibility in a relationship that is broken. But sometimes you need to ask yourself the hard questions so you can salvage what’s left of your relationship.
There are other things that can happen in a relationship that are quite common break-up drivers, meaning, they create fertile ground for an eventual break-up. Let’s take a look at three very common ones.
First Comes Love, Then Comes the Hard Part…
You find your relationship is on the skids, and you wonder… where did it all go wrong?
And, you want to know if it was something you perhaps did?
If your partner cheated, that was their choice and you are not responsible. Cheating is a different set of circumstances—regardless of the level of problems your relationship may have had prior to the affair.
What we’re talking about here is behavior that any of us can get caught up in that must be changed if we want to prevent a break-up.