A Wife’s Recovery From An Affair
Affair recovery
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 →
If you have a spouse involved in infidelity, you are probably looking for answers and trying to make a decision. This is a decision to stay in the marriage and work through it or leave and start over. When you first find out your spouse is unfaithful, you experience a whirlwind of emotions. Your life... Continue Reading →
Reflecting on 2020, it is a year of loss but also great gain. 2020 has been a year of incredible personal and spiritual growth for me. I was stretched to great lengths. Strangely, in experiencing loss we realize the things that we often take for granted. In that loss I became aware of the things... Continue Reading →
Something they don't tell you about separation or divorce is that quite literally it feels like half of yourself is cut off and missing. I realize there are situations that require a couple to separate and not be able to reconcile. But the reality for me was that after 17 years of marriage I felt... Continue Reading →
I thought our fight was over. I thought I was on the right path this past February. What I didn't know was that I was on the right path but there were going to be major bumps and pitfalls I was going to have to go through to get where God was trying to move... 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 →
This could be a dangerous topic. Emotions are high after finding out your spouse cheated. One minute you may feel emotionless, another you might feel sympathy if your spouse seems repentant, then the next you may want to kill them. I would strongly advise against the latter. Lol Yikes! But seriously, I have been... Continue Reading →
Even though my husband made the choice to be unfaithful I also contributed to the atmosphere and sins that had impact upon that decision. I had always idolized sexual intimacy in our relationship but I shied away from emotional intimacy. Honesty and vulnerability were something I greatly struggled with. I was afraid that some... Continue Reading →
A Wife’s Recovery From An Affair 