Surviving the Affair: Accepting Their Right to Cheat Before you reach for the smelling salts, no, infidelity is not an ethical or just choice. Yes, it’s unfair that someone else’s choices have a negative and destructive impact on us. Causing someone else pain by our own selfish choices is reprehensible. …
Yesterday’s post, Affair Help: The Post-Affair Life, was also an exploration of the issues surrounding cheaters who start new lives with their former affair partner, and the difficulties that the former spouse faces as a result. Hugo Schwyzer’s article in Role/Reboot (reproduced below) was originally published in September 2012 prompted …
The Mark Sanford Affair The media is full of recent reports about (former South Carolina Governor) Mark Sanford’s attempt to employ a new staffer to run his campaign for the vacant South Carolina Congressional seat - his ex wife. During 2009 during his tenure as governor of NC, Sanford went missing …
When Infatuation Veers Toward Disenchantment by Christine Meinecke, Ph.D. Remember Jeff Goldblum’s line from Jurassic Park? “Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts, but then later there’s running, then screaming.” Infatuation Romantic relationships almost always start out “oooh, ahhh.” Of course, older and wiser people tell us that …
When you’re faced with the reality of your partner/spouse’s infidelity it is often advised that you set boundaries within your relationships, partly as self-protection and partly because we all strive for healthy relationships. We all have our personal limits and understanding what they are and how to work them into …
I found an article from The Ranch called Lost Your Enthusiasm for Recovery? It’s not about infidelity, marriage, or any of the subject matter that typically links to those issues. However, whilst written as a support for recovering addicts, it could also have been written for those whose worlds have just …
