When you have caught your spouse, being unfaithful, it can be heartbreaking. However, many couples can overcome this painful betrayal through infidelity and cheating marriage counseling. Working with a specialist who truly understands infidelity can help you and your spouse heal together. Parts of couples counseling for infidelity include talking about the root cause of cheating. Also, couples will symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and anger. A spouse who was cheated on will develop severe anxiety that comes with that betrayal. Begin repairing your marriage with our team of infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialists at Wisdom Within Counseling.
Positive experiences in infidelity and cheating marriage counseling can help you better your relationship.
It might be humiliating to think that you could have been the one to be cheated on.
You may have never thought you would be in this place in your romantic relationship or your marriage. Finding out your partner has been cheating, whether emotional or physical, can make it very difficult for you to see a future with your partner. You see them totally differently after feeling betrayed by them. And, trust is all broken. You suffer from post-traumatic, stress disorder, flashbacks, depression, self-doubt, and loss. Being cheated on can lead to anger. You might even be questioning if you should stay, and forgive, or go. Working with the infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialists at Wisdom Within Counseling can give you a safe place to reflect. Couples and individuals can gain clarity on their relationship.
How can meeting with the infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialists at Wisdom Within Counseling support healing?
When you have been cheated on, your whole world feels broken. The person that you thought you could confide in and had a commitment with is blatantly betraying you. Also, the spouse that you looked up to feels like a different person than you know. Yes, you may share household responsibilities with them, but you no longer trust them. And, they are the person talk to you about your work stress. However, it is so sad to think they have been romantically or emotionally involved with someone else. It is normal to feel heartbroken, angry, anxious, and unsure of the future.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to begin repairing your marriage with our team of infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialists.
Working with a marriage therapist who specializes in cheating and infidelity can help you process what you are going through.
This is a time to turn to positive coping tools. When your relationship is in disarray, it is really normal to turn to negative coping tools, such as alcoholism, drug use, working too much, or even going outside of the romantic relationship and cheating yourself. Two wrongs don’t make a right. And, when you find out your partner has been unfaithful and having an affair, the last thing you want to do is numb out yourself.
Gain holistic outlets for intense feelings of anger and anxiety
Right now, it is not the time to go to the bar and drink alcohol in excess. As therapists, we do not recommend spouses involve children in affair conversations. So, don’t over share the anger you are facing with your children about uncovering your spouse’s affair. Rather, working with a couples therapist, who specializes in infidelity and cheating, can help you gain holistic outlets. You can learn mind-body strategies to cope with anxiety in a healthy way.
On that note, we offer holistic therapies right in counseling. You can do art, painting, music, yoga, and be encouraged to process your feelings and healthy ways.
Now, attending marriage therapy for infidelity recovery doesn’t mean forgiving your romantic partner right away. But, through marriage counseling, you get a safe space to think and gain clarity. As well, spouses can talk about the future of their next relationship together.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to begin repairing your marriage with our team of infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialists.
Can couples heal after infidelity and an affair?
Many couples are able to heal after infidelity.
In order to heal, the person who is cheating must cut off all communication with their affair partner. If your partner is not interested in cutting off communication, this is something to talk about in couples therapy. As well, getting divorced can be very traumatic for children, so it may be more worthwhile to take time to attend six months of counseling as a couple. Give you and your spouse a change to improve communication and rekindle a connection that was lacking. Likewise, couples therapy with your spouse gives partners time to reflect rather than jumping right to divorce.
As well, you and your couples therapist can talk about the frequency of infidelity.
If your spouse has only cheated once, or for a short period of time, your marriage is more likely to be repaired. However, if you and your spouse have been fighting, this can add a complex emotional element to cheating behaviors.
Also, when spouse are having angry arguments, this high conflict cycle is something to discuss in couples therapy. If your spouse has been cheating for a number of years or repetitively, there may be more missing from your marriage than you realize.
Cheating and affairs do not have to lead to the end of your romantic relationship, but are an opportunity for new growth.
Many times, cheating is actually important to find out about.
And, finding out about cheating can open a new doorway to overcome pain and loss of what was together.
Instead of continuing numbing behaviors, both partners can create realistic goals, and a meaningful, healthy, better marriage in the future.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to begin repairing your marriage with our team of infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialists.
Why do people cheat in long term relationships?
Cheating and infidelity typically does not happen early on in a relationship, but often after years of loneliness, emotional neglect, distance, and, lack of communication.
There is no excuse for cheating. But, to have a healthier relationship moving forward, both people need to look at what was missing. Working with an infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you understand how cheating occurred in the first place.
Therefore, working with a marriage and relationship therapist, who understands infidelity can help you decide if you want to heal.
Working with a marriage, counselor, who specializes in infidelity and cheating, can help your partner understand the root cause of their negative behaviors of cheating.
Often times, a person cheats because they are trying to numb out. Alcoholism, drug use, cheating, and other numbing behaviors, all go hand-in-hand, and solve nothing. The cheating partner will have to acknowledge that having the affair and truly ask for forgiveness. Furthermore, this may include sharing social media, phone, and facebook passwords for transparency.
As well, the person who cheated and was unfaithful needs to recognize that it was not actually a good choice to make. Instead, having an affair and being unfaithful was a choice to numb out. When is the cheating partner shares a self-awareness on a deep level, a relationship can move forward.
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If your cheating partner wants to cut all ties with their affair partner and work together, you can salvage your marriage.
For the partner who cheated, marriage counseling can be a great opportunity to gain self-awareness.
Your spouse may have been cheating in a variety of different relationships before the one they are having with you. This could be a negative pattern that they would like to finally stop. Cheating and affairs can be compulsive and impulsive choices from childhood trauma. Working with a specialist in cheating and couples therapist can help your spouse understand why they have chosen to be unfaithful.
There are usually a variety of reasons related to lack of communication in the marriage. Sometimes, a person will cheat or have an affair because there is a lack of intimacy, both emotional and physical intimacy. Maybe, a spouse feels rejected sexually or emotionally. Usually, a person who cheats has not been communicating important things they need to communicate with her spouse too.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to begin repairing your marriage with our team of infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialists.
Infidelity and marriage therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can provide spouses with a safe place to talk about all the things they have been avoiding.
Maybe, you and your spouse are not talking because you don’t want to start a fight. Fear keeps couples from talking intimately. Or, you are only talking about the business elements of your relationship. All the romance has faded into the background for years. The focus has been on having children or advancing in your job. There might be a lot of responsibilities bogging down the playfulness and adventure that was once part of your romantic relationship in the beginning.
Looking at all of these components in marriage therapy can be really important when it comes to recovering from infidelity and building a new marriage together.
In couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling, partners learned that they will be making an entirely new marriage together moving forward.
Instead of thinking about piecing together what you used to have, you will actually be starting from the ground up.
What symptoms might you face if you have been cheated on in your marriage?
A partner who was cheated on typically experiences, trauma symptoms, such as trouble sleeping, appetite changes, and even anger or anxiety. It is natural to be unable to get images of your partner having sex with someone else out of your mind. Post traumatic stress disorder is common in the spouse who was cheated on. It may feel like you can’t trust your partner with anything. You may feel always suspicious of their whereabouts.
Sometimes, finding out your partner has been cheating on you can cause problems at work, academically, and even in your relationships with your children.
How can meeting with an infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling help my relationship?
Communication improves from couples therapy more than you may realize. Learning how to communicate can also better your romantic relationship for years into the future. Many times, couples who suffer from infidelity and affairs lack essential communication skills. Learning these skills can create an even stronger foundation than you ever had before.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to begin repairing your marriage with our team of infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialists.
Part of overcoming infidelity through marriage counseling is helping both adults in the relationship choose to talk when times get rough.
Cheating and infidelity occur often because partners stop talking. Sometimes, spouses didn’t see good communication growing up. And, some couples just don’t know what to say when their partner is crying or upset. Overall, working with the infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialists helps you improve communication as a team, together. Learning to talk about different emotions, such as anger, anxiety, neglect, sadness, and loss are all parts of working with an infidelity and cheating marriage therapists.
The infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialists at Wisdom Within Counseling help couples heal after an affair.
For some spouses who are cheated on, they feel so angry, they start talking badly to their children about their marriage. Counseling can help you stay clean and positive in your relationships with your children. Telling your children how much you hate your spouse or feel betrayed by them will not be helpful. Often, this creates more family dysfunction and trauma for children, who don’t need to be involved in affair recovery counseling.
Keep the children out of it through couples therapy
You might feel like you have to protect your children from your spouse who you caught cheating or being unfaithful. It is normal to feel on edge and anxious because of the broken trust. However, in couples therapy, you can learn skills to communicate directly with your partner. Rather than bring children into high conflict fights or this trust matter, you can talk to your partner or spouse. Even if your partner cheated and violated the boundaries of your romantic relationship, it is not helpful to over share negative emotions with young children.
Learning how to communicate during times of high emotion will be part of marriage counseling. At Wisdom Within Counseling, meeting with an affair and infidelity specialist, helps you and your spouse reconnect, forgive, and create a new future.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to begin repairing your marriage with our team of infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialists.
Could finding out my partner was cheating on me actually be a good thing for my marriage?
Yes, as painful as it is to realize your spouse is being dishonest, learning about an affair is positive. You can start to see what was missing, and learn how to meet one another’s needs better in the future. Likewise, an affair and infidelity are signs your marriage has needed repair for years. There are often cracks in your relationship years into the past.
Sometimes, when one person has cheated, couples therapy offers a safe space for the person who was cheated on to share about a past affair that they had that they have never talked about. Secrets in your relaitonship that have been kept for years can finally come out.
The infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialists at Wisdom Within Counseling help couples identify the root issues under the cheating behaviors.
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling specialize in helping couples who want to heal after affairs, traumas, losses, and significant betrayals.
Marriage counseling for affair recovery can be a safe place to process all that you are both feeling. It is normal to feel shame, guilt, and be burdened by these complex emotions when you have cheated on your spouse. As well, if you have been cheated on, it is normal to feel angry, anxious, suspicious, and have lost all trust in your romantic partner.
Instead of trying to talk by yourselves which can lead to high conflict, fights or emotional shut downs, your couples therapist can give you healthy communication tools.
Both people can get centered and grounded. From there, couples can talk about options such as forgiveness, sexual intimacy, trusting again, and building emotional safety.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to begin repairing your marriage with our team of infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialists.
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From a new level of emotional security and emotional intimacy, couples can re-create a new sense of meaningful connection.
Giving you a safe space cannot guarantee that your partner won’t cheat again, but it will offer you communication tools to deal with all different ups and downs that you may face in the future.
Emotional connection is one of the biggest ways couples can build security in their marriage.
Starting today, working with a marriage therapist who understands the trauma and anxiety that comes along with infidelity, can help you get to the root issues underneath the cheating and your relationship.
Building healthy, communication skills, learning to emotionally validate, one another, and incorporating more healthy touch in your marriage are all benefits of working with our team of infidelity and cheating marriage counseling specialists.
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling would love to help you create something more positive, meaningful, and better than you ever had before through the process of infidelity therapy.
