Why Do I Keep Obsessing Over The Affair?
Obsessing over a partner’s infidelity is a natural response to the trauma of discovery. Most individuals find themselves unable, at times, to stop turning over…
How Do Affairs Affect Children? Part I
In this post I will address how children are impacted by their parent’s affairs. In subsequent posts I will discuss the effects on adult children…
How Can I Stop Obsessing Over The Affair?
In order to help yourself when you can’t stop thinking about the affair, it is important to understand the different functions obsessing can serve in your healing…
“Mad Men” In Affairs
“Men weren’t really the enemy – – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there…
How Do Affairs Affect Children? (Part II): Should We Tell Our Children?
Your Role as Parents No matter how devastated you are, you are still faced with the task of keeping it together for the children. This…
The Other Woman (Or Man) – A Paradoxical Experience
If you are involved with a married person and reading this, chances are that you have already gone through the initial stage of infatuation and…
Can Relationships That Start As Affairs Succeed?
I came across an interesting statistic recently; 25% of relationships that start as affairs succeed. “Succeed” is defined as the couple staying together, rather than…