subject: Saving A Marriage After An Affair - One Of The Things You Need To Remember! [print this page] Saving A Marriage After An Affair - One Of The Things You Need To Remember!
If you are saving a marriage after infidelity you know you face a tough battle not only with your partner but within yourself and with society in totality. Trust that is destroyed and the betrayal and hurt of an affair mean that many people end up miserable together and they eventually get divorced. It will not have to turn out this way if you do the right things step by step. Expect your marriage to go through rough time for sometime. It's not going to be easy to fix everything that has been destroyed.
One thing you must do to save your marriage however is this: Look at yourself. This is not selfish, this is the only way you can lay the foundations of what must come next which is facing the affair without flinching to know where you went wrong which can start to help rebuild trust...but that is getting ahead of ourselves. You can only assume that it is what will happen. If you want that to happen, then do it step by step. Your partner will need some time to think about things as well.
First you must rebuild your own sense of self esteem. You must not be crushed by the cheating. You must instead be able to reflect on your feelings and be able to confront your partner without anger and rejection and jealousy. These emotions make you say and do things you will regret and end hopes of proper communication. You do not want this to occur. You should admit that you also did things that are not right. What happened to your marriage did not just happen because only one of you did something wrong. Both of you have are responsible for the destruction of your marriage, therefore it needs both of your efforts to make it work once more.
This is clearly not as easy as it sounds but what it can do for you is stop you from trying to rush into things without being prepared. If you start trying to communicate with a partner who will cause you to simply lose it you will damage your ability to get them to tell you about the affair which is necessary for the healing to take place. Try to keep it together when you plan to talk about things. Outbursts of anger will not help at all. A more calmed atmosphere will help you go through things out much better.
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