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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Tears. They can be such a blessed relief and comfort sometimes, but they can also feel never ending. When I first learned about my husband’s affair I strangely couldn’t cry very much. I wanted to but it just wouldn’t come. Slowly, as processing happened they did start to flow and I was able to grieve... Continue Reading →
I love reading and every year I end up making it through a handful of books. I like novels, true life stories, and Christian growth books. These are my top choices of 2017. “Walk to Beautiful” by Jimmy Wayne. It is the true story of Jimmy Wayne country music star, and his childhood to stardom.... Continue Reading →
Be Still and Know that I am God... Isaiah 46:10 Nothing caused my world to stop so suddenly as my husband’s confession to an affair this summer. In that moment everything seemed to pause and life as I knew it changed. I wanted to hold on to my “bubble” as I call it. The bubble... Continue Reading →
In the same way the Spirit also comes to help us, weak as we are. For we do not know how we ought to pray; the Spirit himself pleads with God for us in groans that words cannot express. (Romans 8:26) I don't know about you, but right about the time Thanksgiving week hits the... Continue Reading →
A Wife’s Recovery From An Affair 