Realizing your partner is having an affair can be devastating. You are heartbroken and your whole world feels shattered. For one, you never thought they would do this. And, you always respected them so much. As well, you might not even know if you can trust your partner again due to their lying. Cheating, lying, and secret keeping make relationships very difficult. Marriage therapy for affair recovery in Old Lyme, CT is possible at Wisdom Within Counseling.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for marriage therapy for affair recovery in Old Lyme, CT for togetherness.
Trust and commitment are the foundation of the best relationships.
If you found your partner having an affair, physical, or emotional, our team of marriage therapists specialize in couples who need affair recovery. Our team of marriage therapists in Old Lyme, CT help you rebuild your marriage. As well, marriage therapy can help you both understand how the affair began in the first place.
Marriage therapy for affair recovery in Old Lyme, CT supports trauma and PTSD symptoms
Being cheated on can lead to low self-worth and self-doubt. Therefore, we work with spouses who have been cheated on. They often develop trauma symptoms and PTSD. As a result, you may have very high levels of anxiety. You might be worried that your spouse is going to have another affair.
Even if you do marriage counseling together, you worry they may still be cheating.
In couples therapy, marriage therapists help give you coping tools for releasing these fears and anxieties in positive ways. Did you know that an emotional affair is just as damaging as a physical affair? And many times, your partner might get defensive if you try to talk about their own unfaithfulness or lying at home. Marriage therapy for affair recovery in Old Lyme, CT supports PTSD and trauma coping tools.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for marriage therapy for affair recovery in Old Lyme, CT.
In marriage therapy for affair recovery in Old Lyme, CT, we help you and your spouse develop greater emotional intimacy for a long-term, loving relationship.
Working with LGBTQ, same sex, and monogamous couples, our team specializes in affair recovery. For a long time, you and your partner may have been living secret lives. There might be things that they have been hiding in the past such as credit card debt. In addition, deception and secret keeping can decrees all sexual chemistry due to lack of trust.
Right now, your marriage is in distress.
The responsibilities of parenting, having children with medical conditions, job changes, and mental health issues like depression and can all put stress on a marriage. Marriage therapy for affair recovery in Old Lyme, CT is an opportunity to rebuild. And, you both can improve communication after an affair. Your marriage therapist can help identify the root cause of the affair and give you tools to prevent it from happening again.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for couples therapy for infidelity recovery and positive coping tools.
Discovering an affair can lead to high levels of anxiety and a profound sense of grief and loss.
It is normal for a spouse who finds out their partner is cheating to continuously watch for an affair to start again. This is a trauma symptom about being hyper aware. In addition, following the disclosure of an affair, physical or emotional, both partners may experience severe depression, loss, and sadness. There might be a sense of shame that develops.
If you were cheated on, you now have symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder.
Experiencing post traumatic stress disorder means that you might have nightmares, flashbacks, panic attacks, hot sweats, and extreme fears.
Your therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you learn techniques to manage post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. It is a major trauma to find out your partner is lying and consciously being dishonest. Finding out your partner is cheating means that you will have flashbacks and intrusive negative images of the affair in your mind.
Marriage therapy for affair recovery in Old Lyme, CT helps your partner understand the emotional impact of their infidelity.
It is normal to feel like you are grieving the loss of the marriage you thought you were creating as a result of finding out about the deception. Working with an affair and marital specialist at Wisdom Within counseling in Old Lyme, Connecticut can help you and your partner heal trauma. Often, couples therapy supports healing post traumatic stress disorder together. Often times, you all feel angry, anxious, jealous, and also feel annoyed. You might even be more irritable than normal.
The person who was cheating often has shame and guilt that needs to be processed from their infidelity.
In marriage counseling for affair recovery in Old Lyme, Connecticut, we help distant partners develop empathy and communication together. The marriage therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling teach skills for building hopefulness and compassion.
Where to begin before getting into couples therapy?
Many times, someone who has been cheating thinks that if they stop having sex with an affair partner, that will be good enough. Emotional cheating is just as traumatic. However, at Wisdom Within Counseling, we believe emotional affairs are often how physical affairs begin. Furthermore, studies show that stopping an affair means no longer talking to the person. If the affair partner was a coworker, the relationship must only be professional. There should be no more unplanned encounters or secrets related to visiting an affair partner. If possible, an affair partner should not be in a person’s life any longer, due to needing to focus on their marriage.
What happens if my spouse keeps talking to their affair partner?
If a person who was caught cheating or having an affair continues to talk to their affair partner, this is cheating. Cheating and infidelity continues to be hurtful and couples may decide they have gained enough clarity to separate. However, dealing with the painful emotions and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms will be really important. So, when it comes to healing after a physical or emotional affair, it is possible through Old Lyme, Connecticut marriage therapy.
It is possible for a couples to heal after a physical or emotional affair together through marriage counseling.
How long should couples therapy last? Well, some couples need to talk for a long time about the sadness, guilt, fear, and trauma. Talking about the affair may last for months or years into the future. Often, it takes months to truly overcome the PTSD symptoms, shame, and guilt. There is no rush to overcome an affair or infidelity. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Old Lyme, CT, your marriage therapist will help you talk about the truth. You can talk about honesty, meanings of love, and get information on your communication styles.
We help the following towns in Connecticut:
We offer couples therapy and marriage counseling to families in Bozrah, East Lyme, Franklin, Griswold, Groton, Ledyard, Lisbon, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Norwich, Preston, Salem, Sprague, Stonington, and Waterford. In addition we support families in shoreline towns such as Madison, Mystic, East Lyme, Westport, Old Saybrook, Greenwich, Stony Creek, Clinton, and Guilford. In additon, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling supports couples going through relationship challenges over video counseling in Kent, Sharon, Stafford, Killingly, Norfolk, Salisbury, Litchfield, Newtown, Lebanon, Lyme, Goshen, Suffield, Granby, Woodstock and Tolland, Connecticut.
What to expect in marriage therapy for affair recovery in Old Lyme, CT?
Your Old Lyme, Connecticut marriage therapist can talk about love languages. You can learn about love maps, which is the map of your romantic partner. As well, you can learn tool and skills to know what to do when your spouse is in distress to offer support. In addition, couples therapy is a healing journey of togetherness, commitment, and intimacy. And, learning about love languages and attachment styles can help to build positive coping strategies for stress. You can talk about what triggered the affair and cheating.
As well, you and your spouse can team up to handle major lifestyle changes like transitioning to being parents or having a parent that is sick and ill.
As well, you can know that the hyper arousal, flashbacks, and negative images are part of PTSD. You can learn self-soothing skills for PTSD symptoms in couples therapy through art, yoga, and meditation. Wisdom Within Counseling supports distant couples who want to stay together after cheating, lying, or an affair. Holistic counseling using art, yoga, music and drama therapies can support affair recovery.
