Affairs and infidelity can be heartbreaking, but offer an opportunity to grow together again. Realizing your partner has been cheating on you after years of marriage together can be devastating. When you realize your partner has been cheating or unfaithful, you might feel angry, hurt, overwhelmed, and confused. Working with a marriage specialist, who understands infidelity and cheating in the context of marriage counseling can help you and your partner understand how infidelity took place. Affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind can help you and your partner gain skills to prevent affair behaviors in the future. Cheating and infidelity can occur with all couples regardless of gender, age, or ethnicity when there are cracks in your relationship.
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When you have been cheated on, what happens to you?
Often times, when you have been cheated on, you suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. You may be flooded with images of your spouse cheating such as being naked with someone else. As well, your mind might play tricks on you. One moment you are happy, and the next, you feel angry. As well, you may be suspicious of your spouse all the time. When you have been cheated on, you immediately suffer from high levels of anxiety, tearfulness, and fear. You may constantly question your spouse regarding their whereabouts. Marriage counseling in Melbourne, Florid for infidelity and betrayal issues can help you communicate what you are feeling in calm ways.
What not to do when your spouse has been cheating on you?
Bombarding your spouse with anger is not healthy. Affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind can help you communicate your fears and worries clearly. You shouldn’t yell at your spouse who has cheated on you. Couples counseling can be a safe place to ask your questions. Demanding your partner speak to you late into midnight and early morning hours can be very overwhelming. High conflict fights after an affair is discovered are unhealthy. Instead of feeling alone or angry in the process of recovering from a marital affair, couples can come to Wisdom within Counseling for specialized infidelity support.
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How can affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind support healthier relationship skills?
When your partner has been unfaithful and has had an affair, there are often many negative issues leading up to this larger issue. The team of marriage therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling, specialize in affair and betrayal counseling for couples. You can learn to be an archaeologist and gain perspective on the stressors that contributed to the affair. Wisdom Within Counseling helps couples identify the issues that have been swept under the rug for years.
Essentially, cheating is a behavior that symbolizes a snowball effect of different issues that need addressing.
Couples counseling in Melbourne, Florida can help you understand what lead to an extra marital affair. Often times, couples need education regarding affairs and infidelity from couples therapy. Marriage therapy can help couples gain important skills that they do not have yet, in order to prevent an affair in the future.
Why do people have affairs while married and why did my partner cheat on me?
Well, this is a very complex question. Space Coast Florida couples counseling can help you address the unique reasons your marriage became susceptible to an affair. When your spouse or partner has been cheating, their behavior is a symptom of much larger issues. For one, you may have lost touch with each other. Many times, couples get stuck in the responsibilities of owning and maintaining a home. Couples spend all their free time raising children and parenting. As well, both people in the marriage may be suffering from their own mental health issues. Work stress leads to emotional burnout and exhaustion. Over years, a decade or longer, couples may grow distant and apart.
Your couples therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne, Florida can understand if you have lost touch with one another.
You can have a safe place to talk about affair behaviors and cheating. Your marriage therapist can help you both understand the snowball effect regarding cheating and repair your relationship.
There may be a variety of different complex, stressors and trauma experiences that have contributed to a fear and betrayal behaviors.
Emotional disconnection can lead to affairs and a need for infidelity counseling in Melbourne, Florida
Untreated anger issues and anger explosions can lead to emotional disconnection. When one or both of you have anger issues, this brews a recipe for infidelity and affairs. Perhaps, one of you has anger issues. As a result, the other person feels ignored, hurt, and lonely in the relationship. High conflict fighting alone can make your marriage more susceptible to affairs and infidelity. Affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind can help you understand how to release anger in a healthy way. Secure bonding, trust, and meaningful connection is more possible when couples know how to calmly release anger.
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Couples therapy in Melbourne, Florida can help you think about the ways that you and your partner have interacted that make you more susceptible to infidelity and affairs.
Sexual dissatisfaction and intimacy issues are a big reason for feeling rejected. Partners who sexually reject each other can make their marriage more susceptible to affairs and cheating. Sex is an important part of a healthy marriage. If you or your partner don’t feel romantic emotions towards the other anymore, this can make your marriage susceptible to an affair. Your partner may have felt wanted, important, and excited in the eyes of their affair partner.
Prioritizing quality time together is a benefit from affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with marriage therapist, Katie Ziskind
As well, lack of quality time together makes couples more susceptible to affairs, cheating, and betrayals. One of you may be working 12+ hour shifts and never seeing the other. Or, one of you may be working when your partner is free and off. Lack of quality time together can be a stressor that contributes to affairs and cheating.
Extramarital affairs are very damaging and one of the major marital problems the team of couples counselors at the Wisdom Within Counseling help with.
Dealing with an affair is painful, but can be an opportunity for new meaningful connection in your marriage. Affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind can help you in recovering from an affair.
Affair recovery is possible with the help of a relationship and marriage specialist.
To add, there are major relationship and communication skills that couples in the affair recovery process will need to learn in order to recover. If you or your partner has been unfaithful or cheating, this means you both are often lacking important marital skills. More often than not, both people need to learn skills for increasing bonding, trust, emotional validation, sexual expression, and attachment.
Can affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind help us create a secure, meaningful attachment?
Healthy couples, who don’t suffer from infidelity, have a strong, secure sense of attachment to each other. When you and your partner have suffered from infidelity, Melbourne, Florida marriage counseling can help you rebuild a secure attachment. Leading up to the affair and cheating, the attachment became weak, anxious, or avoidant. When you think about it, you and your partner felt distant, unhappy, and disconnected.
Affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind can help you understand your attachment style. To note, attachment styles can be rooted in relationships with your primary caregivers. You can talk about your role models in childhood and if you felt secure, anxious, avoidant, or even disconnected to them. Sharing the insight about your attachment style and needs can be positive for rebuilding your marriage. You can talk with your spouse about the awareness you have gained from couples counseling as part of the affair and infidelity recovery process.
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Couples counseling in Melbourne, Florida can help partners better understand attachment styles and needs
When partners better understand each other’s attachment style, this can foster closeness and connection. For instance, you may think back to the relationships you had with your parents and caregivers as a child. Marriage counseling in Melbourne, Florida can be a safe place for your spouse to talk about their relationships with parents or caregivers.
Watching your parents get into yelling matches and criticize each other can leave a lasting impact.
For example, if your parent was an alcoholic and yelled all the time, you may feel very anxious around yelling. Your anxiety increases when your spouse yells. It reminds you of your abusive, narcissistic parents and caregivers. When your spouse yells, you feel more sensitive to it. You may disassociate or want to numb out as a result of conflict. As well, yelling and anger in your spouse could be a trigger for your infidelity behaviors. Couples counseling in Melbourne, Florida can be a safe place to talk about these connections.
Affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind, marriage counselor, can help you communicate you need calmer communication to feel safe. To add, when you have a parent or caregiver in childhood who is emotionally, abusive, sexually abusive, or verbally abusive, you may have an anxious attachment style.
We bring our interest attachment styles into our romantic relationships.
Affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind, marriage counselor, can give you space to talk about your attachment style. Instead of having anxious attachment style or an avoidant attachment style, you can develop a secure attachment style for marriage counseling.
By talking about your affair and infidelity behaviors with Katie Ziskind, licensed marriage and family therapist, you can release shame and guilt.
Couples can become closer and more honest through marriage counseling in Melbourne, Florida. Unfortunately, it can be very easy for couples to get heated, angry, and emotionally frustrated around affairs. Talking about infidelity with each other in the presence of a therapist can prevent hurtful language and negative communication. When an affair is discovered or revealed, it triggers, anger, guilt, shame, self hatred, humiliation, and more. Both partners commonly experience, intense, powerful emotions. Therefore, meeting with a marriage therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can give you a safe space to communicate your feelings in healthy ways. Katie Ziskind specializes in affair and betrayal recovery.
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Affair and infidelity counseling in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind, marriage therapist, can help you process your intense emotions
Loss, grief, anger, resentment, jealousy, fear, nervousness, anxiety, sadness, and betrayal may all be present for you both. To add, it is normal for the partner has been cheated on to feel a deep sense of betrayal, anxiety, and loss. The partner who cheated may feel shameful, self-hatred, and regret. Talking about each of these emotions is an important part of the infidelity counseling process. Essentially, working with a marriage therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne, Florida helps you truly heal from infidelity and affair.
Affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind, marriage counselor, give couples an opportunity to change negative behaviors. Couples can learn healthier behaviors from marriage counseling to create an even healthier marriage, moving forward. Instead of trying to pick up the pieces of your old marriage, affair recovery counseling is about actively and intentionally choosing each other again. In order to heal from infidelity and cheating, Melbourne, Florida couples therapy can help you develop a secure attachment. Couples can emotionally process what they are feeling calmly rather than yelling at one another.
Affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind, marriage counselor, support healthier communication
Many times, couples who find themselves recovering from an affair have not talked or communicated in years. Decades go by and couples do not talk about deeper emotions for many years. This makes your marriage susceptible to an affair.
Couples who are distant are like two ships passing in the night.
One of you does the dishes, and the other one takes care of the kids. And, you are both exhausted by the end of the night. You might even be in a sexless marriage before an affair is discovered. Instead of living disconnected lives, affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind, marriage counselor, support genuine connection. You can learn to laugh with each other again.
Talking about the emotions and feeling together on a daily basis is very healthy. As well, talking about feelings and emotions can prevent a future affair from taking place.
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In Melbourne, Florida marriage counseling, couples can talk about the sense of betrayal, the anxiety, the fear, and the loss related to the affair.
To note, an affair, or a secret relationship with someone else, is an opportunity for couples to rebuild their marriage. Affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind, marriage counselor, can help you make your marriage even stronger than it once was.
Notably, infidelity behaviors are a symptom of much larger, negative marital issues. Your couples therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can asses what is going on in your marriage. Whether the affair was just emotional, online, or sexually intimate in person, it is hurtful for the person who was cheated on.
For the person who was cheated on, it might feel like they can never trust a spouse again.
There might be conflicts that arise, rooted in anger, jealousy, loss, anxiety, or grief. A consensual boundary was broken during infidelity. Affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind, marriage counselor, can support creating new, healthier boundaries.
Couples counseling in Melbourne, Florida helps the person who cheated to identify their triggers.
To recover, a person who cheats need to gain awareness for the emotional triggers that lead to cheating behaviors. For instance, triggers to acting in unfaithful way can be specific emotions. A person who takes part in emotional and physical affairs can learn about their triggers in marriage counseling. Instead of justifying why they cheated, Melbourne, Florida couples therapy can help a partner who cheated take responsibility.
The person who cheated can learn to take ownership and accountability for the hurt they have caused by not being sexually or emotionally exclusive.
As well, a person who cheated can talk with their romantic partner about the feelings of loneliness or unimportance. Some of these emotions can be triggers for affairs and infidelity. Often times, couples are not talking about the roots and the triggers to affair behavior.
A person who cheated can talk about when they have felt unimportant, and how they desired attention from their emotional or sexual affair partner. Talking about the needs that have been unmet can help couples in counseling prevent infidelity behavior in the future.
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Finding out your partner has been cheating is an opportunity to communicate more clearly and better than you ever have before.
Many times, couples can choose to stay together after an affair occurs. With affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind, marriage counselor, couples can emotionally reconnect. You can have actionable steps to recover after an affair infidelity. Many couples choose to stay together after an affair because they love each other. Couples therapy in Melbourne, Florida can help you process feelings of anger, forgiveness, anxiety and love at the same time. Affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind, marriage counselor, can help you explore gender, sexuality, intimacy, your sex life, and sexual expression too.
In affair recovery counseling, you can talk about issues regarding sexual orientation, sex life, communication, emotional and sexual intimacy, and secure attachment.
More often than not, couples are avoiding conversations around sex, gender, sexual expression, intimacy, and sexuality. You couples therapist can make these topic more comfortable to talk about together.
Talking about sex, sex life, sexuality, gender expression, and intimacy can support a secure attachment. Sometimes, a person cheats because they are looking to explore diverse sexual experiences with different genders.
A person may want to be sexual with someone of the same gender, or a different gender than their partner. A person who cheats due to being in the closet may feel shame, guilt, and self-hatred. Recovering from an affair may also in part be a coming out process. You and your partner can talk about identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or non-binary. From couples counseling in Melbourne, Florida, you can talk about sexuality in relationship to cheating and infidelity behaviors.
Couples can heal from affairs and infidelity by talking about sex life, sexual orientation, and gender expression in counseling, which can be liberating.
Instead of feeling like you have to hide you sexual orientation from your parter, you can be honest and open through counseling. If you have cheated on your spouse, you can start to open up about your gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. Affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind, marriage counselor, can help you gain more honest communication. Learning to be honest and authentic in your communication can be a great benefit from marriage counseling for affairs and infidelity.
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Couples in counseling can identify the root issues of dysfunctional secret keeping behaviors
Affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind, marriage counselor, can help address secret keeping behaviors.
If you have been cheating or unfaithful, your secret keeping behaviors may have started when you were young child. In couples counseling in Melbourne, Florida, you can look at how you have gotten really good at keeping secrets. Maybe, it is normal for you to be hiding away certain parts of yourself.
To add, secret keeping behaviors may develop because you are afraid your partner or others won’t accept you. Your Wisdom Within Counseling couples therapist can help you feel empowered to talk openly rather than keeping secrets. In marriage counseling, you and your partner can talk about about distressing, upsetting emotions, instead of keeping them a secret.
Perhaps, you started keeping secrets as a young child to avoid physical, emotional, or verbal abuse from a parent or caregiver. As a child, if you talked about sex or your sexuality, you may have been brutally punished.
Additionally, you learned to keep emotions and parts of you a secret. Dysfunctional secret keeping behaviors can often be engrained in us from childhood. You can learn to be a more authentic version on yourself from couples counseling. Affair in infidelity counseling in Melbourne, Florida can help you break the dysfunctional cycle of secret keeping behaviors.
How can meeting for affair and infidelity therapy in Melbourne, Florida with Katie Ziskind, marriage counselor help us recover?
Overall, affair and betrayal counseling in Melbourne, Florida can help you reconnect to yourself and your partner again. If you have cheated, instead of feeling like you have to live a double life and lie, you can learn about honest communication.
As well, couples therapy can help partners understand the recipe for how the affair took place. Usually an affair is brewing for about 5 to 6 years into the past. Gaining education and communication skills are parts of Melbourne, Florida couples counseling.
One partner is often feeling, lonely, unimportant, or criticized. Overtime, these unmet needs leave a hole. Then, this partner receives attention from someone outside the relationship, and an affair begins. The partner who cheated can understand their emotional triggers for being unfaithful.
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Partners can learn to communicate more honestly and clearly from marriage counseling to prevent cheating and affair behaviors in the future.
As well, in couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling, the partner who was cheated on can better understand their new symptoms. You can gain positive coping tools and strategies for post traumatic stress disorder symptoms. Commonly, a partner who was cheated on experiences high levels of anxiety. Marriage therapy can help both partners gain positive coping strategies for anxiety.
Instead of having circular, pointless, and exhausting conversations until 2 am in the morning about the affair, couples have a safe place to talk about affairs and infidelity in marriage counseling.
Your couples therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you deal and cope with this trauma. When anxiety surfaces, you can learn to communicate it calmly. Couples therapy can help you make changes to your work schedules to have more time together. As well, couples therapy in Melbourne, Florida can be a place to prioritize your marriage again.
You can talk about what helps you feel romantic, and continue to write your love story together.
It is absolutely possible to heal after in an affair or infidelity with the help of a marriage specialist. To note, it is essential to work with a marriage therapist who understands affairs, cheating, trauma and betrayal.
Sometimes, couples goto a more general therapist, who doesn’t have an affair or marital speciality, can do more harm than good.
If you have been working with a therapist that you don’t really like, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling can help. Maybe, you are seeing a therapist who doesn’t really understand your feelings. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you process the affair and help you reconnect and heal after an affair. Our team of therapists at Gottman marital therapy trained and have specialized trainings for affair recovery.
Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne, Florida specializes in affair and betrayal healing. We help couples rebuild security, sexual desire, sexual intimacy, and improve relationship satisfaction as a whole.
Where can you receive Wisdom Within Counseling couples therapy services?
Wisdom Within Counseling supports couples in Viera, Orlando, Palm Bay, Melbourne, Rockledge, Palm Shores, Malabar, 32950, Grant-Valkaria, Melbourne Beach, Satellite Beach, Cocoa Beach, 32931, Indialantic, 32903, Cape Canaveral, 32920, West Melbourne, 32904, Patrick Space Force Base, 32925, Indian Harbour Beach, Florida 32937, USA. Couples can meet for video counseling in Naples, For Meyers, Bradenton, Jacksonville, Homestead, Key West, Key Largo, Sarasota, Tampa, and Ocala, Florida. As well, Wisdom Within Counseling offers affair therapy and helps couples repair relationships in Hartford, Stamford, Wilton, East Lyme, Stonington, Taftville, Vernon, Woodbridge, and Danbury Connecticut.
