Healing from Infidelity

Little compares to the devastation people feel upon discovering their spouse has been unfaithful. Shocked, devastated and overwhelmed, couples often hit stalemates as they struggle to get past intense emotional pain, mistrust, resentment and never-ending arguments about the betrayal.

From the bestselling author of Divorce Busting and The Sex-Starved Marriage, renowned therapist, and TEDx speaker, Michele Weiner-Davis, comes a powerful blueprint for helping couples rebuild trust and mend their marriages following the crisis of discovery of an affair through forgiveness and beyond.

Based on over three decades of experience helping couples recover from betrayal and save their marriages, Weiner-Davis offers a bold, step-by-step program to help readers:

• Work through traumatic feelings after the discovery
• Respond to questions about the affair
• Talk about intense emotions without arguing
• Know when- and when not to- talk about the affair
• Become more forthcoming and transparent when discussing what happened
• End the affair permanently
• Understand why the affair happened
• Offer apologies that are sincere and healing
• Overcome flashbacks and painful memories
• Deal effectively with setbacks
• Rebuild trust and accountability
• Avoid destructive criticism and self blame
• Eliminate shame
• Identify support that is "marriage-friendly"
• Make their marriage stronger than before the affair
• Find forgiveness
• Reconnect sexually
• Affair-proof the marriage

Also:

• What to do when the affair remains on-going
• How one spouse can fight for the marriage when the other wants out

This book is filled with case vignettes of couples whose lives were shattered by betrayal but have eventually recovered and thrived. With the publication of Healing from Infidelity, the practical advice available to her clients will be made accessible to millions more who desperately want to move through the pain of infidelity and restore their love.