How to Survive an Affair and start saving Your Marriage

Sadly many marriages and relationships end because of an affair, and you know what? Things dont have to work out this way. In my practice the majority of couples who come to me in this situation where one or other party [or very rarely both] have had an affair actually succeed in surviving an affair rebuilding their relationship and have gone on with their lives stronger, happier and more connected than they were before.

If you are one of these people struggling to stop your divorce or desperately working on saving your marriage, there is an above average hope of success if you follow some simple guidelines. I believe that this can be the single most important piece of advice on relationships I can offer to couples. Here are 5 simple steps that can help you both to get through this situation.

1/ Choose not to look at what has happened as a BAD THING. I cant believe that I hear you say to yourself. The reason is this and its called feedback. Whenever something in your life goes badly wrong, you are getting negative feedback, and what this is doing is giving you the chance to put things back on track and this is actually a GOOD THING!

2/ Avoid getting involved in blaming your partner for what has happened. Whilst it is true that one or both members of the relationship have damaged the others trust, if you only focus on blame and anger, you will never be able to move forward.

3/ Another important thing is not too blame yourself for the your partners affair. They took the action not you.

4/ The basic reason why any person has an affair is having needs met that are not being met in their marriage or relationship. These needs may be emotional physical spiritual or mental. By talking honestly and openly about these needs without anger or blame both people can gain a new and powerful awareness of each other’s relationship needs .

5/ Take responsibility for your own feelings and actions “I had an affair because you never want physicality any more” is putting the responsibility on the other person. “I chose to have an affair because I felt unloved and undesired sexually” is being responsible for your own actions. By using the “I” word couples can talk about their relationship situation without the other person feeling attacked and consequently feeling they have to respond defensively.

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