A Wife’s Recovery From An Affair
Affair recovery
Do marriages survive this? Has anyone else been through this and thrived on the other side? How do I move forward? How do I heal? These were all questions I had after my spouse confessed to an affair. I searched the internet looking for a true story of someone who had been through infidelity and... Continue Reading →
Sitting in my car in the dark I knew I needed to go home, but I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to face him. That day my world came crashing down. My spouse had confessed to an affair. Needing space, I’d left to talk to a friend and now the light of day had... Continue Reading →
Boundaries "A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls." Proverbs 25:28 The word boundary, limits, or confines can sound restrictive, giving a feeling of negative connotation. Back in Bible days boundary lines for land defined possession. A sense of pride and belonging was felt with the inheritance of land.... Continue Reading →
Are you standing outside the grave mourning the loss of your dream? I was there, devastated by the loss of faithfulness in my marriage. My dream of a happy, fairy tale marriage was dead. Just like Martha standing outside of Lazarus' tomb all looks lost. Until.... Jesus walks in. The Resurrected Lord stands by our... Continue Reading →
You have heard the saying "Time heals all wounds." After the realization that my spouse had an affair, time was a thing to endure. Time was filled with raw pain and agony that stretched for days and months. Tears that never seemed to stop flowing. The first year afterward will be a time of grieving.... Continue Reading →
I had imagined it many times. Played out the scenario over and over and in various ways. Sometimes my fist hit her in the face. Sometimes I fired angry accusations and questions of why? Sometimes I imagined hugging her and crying, but then sitting her down to talk things out. I always judged her in... Continue Reading →
From a worldly perspective, there's not much hope for a cheater to mend his ways or for that path to be corrected and stay corrected. The cheater can feel justified for his behavior. He or she can decide to believe that marriage/committed relationships weigh you down and interfere with freedom and happiness. How we think... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, It has been over a year and a half since my last blog post. There is something healthy and healing in stepping away and choosing to not dwell on the past. Yet this story is so apart of me, of us, that it is still being told and lessons lived. I am currently... Continue Reading →
Yesterday was a year to the date that my world flipped upside down with my husband’s confession to an affair. A year. A time that seems short, yet long in other ways. So much has happened this past year. Lots of tears, hard relational work and life changes. Since the confession we moved to a... Continue Reading →
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” -C.S. Lewis Leave the past behind and move forward... How do I do that? God has done a lot in my life and in our marriage and healing. Many factors have... Continue Reading →
A Wife’s Recovery From An Affair 