NOT "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity

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Not "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity after Infidelity by Shirley Glass Ph. I guess, just thinking randomly, that marriage is about the only thing in our whole lives where we have to be 100% committed to just one situation. If the unfaithful partner feels ambivalent and still has feelings for the affair partner, he must say so. Since things were already rocky, as my friendship grew, my efforts to meet my husband's needs lessened. The description of the nauseating, insomniating, complicated emotions the person who has been cheated on feels was exactly what I had been trying to express to family and friends.

Although I read the book with much personal pain and had to put it down for days, I was compelled to pick it back up repeatedly because I saw myself on many of the pages. Can be read as a stand alone but highly recommend reading all three of this series because they are THAT amazing! By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. its like we're sitting eating dinner (that he's cooked) and we're having a laugh and telling each other about things that have happened during our day and out of nowhere BAM into my head comes 'but you don't love me - you fucked somebody else' its like it hasn't even come from my consiousness. Knowing where you are heading can keep you and your relationship from getting totally lost even when you find yourselves off course.The workplace and the Internet have become fertile breeding grounds for friendships that can slowly and insidiously turn into love affairs. Today's affairs are more frequent and more serious than they used to be because more men are getting emotionally involved and more women are getting sexually involved. The ultimate goal in committed relationships is to think of your marital partner as your best friend. In two-thirds of the couples I've treated in my clinical practice over the past twenty years, either the husband, the wife, or both were unfaithful. In addition, she has learned about the trauma of infidelity from the couples she has treated in her private practice in the Baltimore area.

In the new crisis of infidelity, more men are getting emotionally involved, and more women are getting sexually involved. One of the world's leading experts on infidelity provides a step-by-step guide through the process of marital infidelity-from suspicion and revelation to healing, and provides profound, practical guidance to prevent cheating and, if it happens, recover and heal from it. In this recent analysis, the 350 couples I treated alone and in cotherapy with my partner in practice, Dr. D. author of The Truth About Love and Hot Monogamy A must-read for anyone whoever hopes to be happy in long-term relationship. One of the world's leading experts on infidelity provides a step-by-step guide through the process of infidelity—from suspicion and revelation to healing, and provides profound, practical guidance to prevent infidelity and, if it happens, recover and heal from it.

Leighton and Tibbs have such a wonderful relationship that I could see the problem when Stubbs gives the “Hands Off” about Presley. For others, commitment is conditional and seems to come with a yellow warning light that can be heeded or ignored.

When a woman has an affair, it is more often the result of long-term marital dissatisfaction, and the marriage is harder to repair. For months I have been looking for someone that could understand that I felt both betrayed and yet still loved my former spouse.

I’m not sure which book in the series was my favorite because they all were written so well and with such enjoyable characters. One of the difficulties of recovering from the trauma of infidelity is that the unfaithful partner must become the healer.