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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

4 Steps to recovering your self-esteem after the affair

Time has passed and it is now after the affair. You have spent some time thinking about your feelings, trying to put your negative thoughts aside and making an effort to understand your emotions. The initial shock is over, your husband’s cheating is out in the open and people now expect you to take some action. Resist attempts to rush you into making decisions; this is still your life, and whilst you are understandably emotionally rocky, your brain still works, you can think for yourself!

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

How to End an Emotional Affair?

At first it was a friendship, then you became closer than you imagined possible, until that person has become as important to you as your spouse, and you were deep into emotional cheating! Most people in this situation know that the lies and the reluctance to let their spouse know anything about this other person, all add up to an affair, it has just not reached a physical level. It is important to learn how to end emotional cheating but first the full extent of the betrayal must be understood.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

Emotional Affair Definition

You could well argue that any and all affairs are emotional, but the actual definition of an emotional affair, put bluntly, is an affair without sex. Now this may be confusing to some who imagine that the word “affair” implies sex, so I shall clarify the definition, and attempt to give you an insight into what is an emotional affair. A close relationship with a member of the opposite sex that is not your partner, but the relationship does not include physical intimacy. Are we getting any closer to understanding this non sexual affair?

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

Positive thinking can help you to survive infidelity

Banishing negative thoughts requires replacement with positive thoughts, which is possible with practice. Learning basic breathing exercises and focusing on the act of breathing, may seem basic, but with regular practice is effective. Negative thoughts needed to be identified, written down, and focused breathing techniques used to distract the mind. For some women this negativity is life threatening, and counseling or psychiatric help may be the only solution.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

Emotional betrayal and your feelings

Rage, it is perfectly normal to feel angry, at your betrayer for having an extramarital affair, at yourself, at his friends who kept the secret, at your friends who did not warn you, at the world for letting this happen! It is not, however, alright to take that rage out on your children, nor should rage be allowed to take over your life.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

How to Read Emotional Affair Signs?

If you know that emotional affairs at work are common and that your husband or wife seems distant lately, your imagination may be in overdrive, suspecting them of infidelity. Whether they are cheating physically or emotionally, the emotional affair signs are very similar to those of a spouse conducting a full blown physically intimate affair, with one very distinctive difference; the level of denial. A spouse having an emotional affair may be in total denial that their relationship is any kind of affair.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

Banish negative emotions, a strategy to clear your mind

The first weeks after discovering their husband’s extramarital affair the wife will experience a mindless jumble of emotions. For some those weeks pass in a blur and they cannot remember much about what they did, let alone what they said. This is critically important, and no decisions should be made during this period of time or long lasing mistakes may be the outcome. Women undergoing this confusing and stressful time must think first and foremost of themselves.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

Emotional Affairs, What’s All the Fuss About?

There are two quite different beliefs as to what is an emotional affair; the one believes it to be a workplace friendship, the other believes it to be the single most dangerous threat to a marriage possible. These two viewpoints do not fall neatly into gender camps, but there is a commonality between those on one side and those on the other. The deniers tend to see themselves at the center of most interactions, while those who accept that emotional infidelity is a real and potential threat have heightened empathy and see relationships as involving several people.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

Emotional Affair is worse than a Physical One!

The idea of your husband or wife being physically intimate with another person is one of the worst aspects of discovering a spouse’s infidelity. The images replay in the betrayed spouses’ minds and the feelings of disgust can run deep. However, one can argue you can at least fight sex! The deep connection and sharing of hopes and dreams implied by a husbands’ emotional affair; his reliance on another woman for his emotional needs is far more of a betrayal of trust, as it calls into question the wife’s role in the relationship and is far harder to fight.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

How do emotional affairs happen?

Once you at least partly accept that, for a lot of people, the workplace is the source of many an emotional affair; you may want to know how to avoid getting involved in one, or maybe you need to identify if you are close to the edge of an emotional affair, without realizing it? Few married people are comfortable with the notion of infidelity, and yet, they can allow themselves to get dangerously close to someone, whilst kidding themselves that they are not being unfaithful because there is no physical intimacy.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

Recovering from Emotional Infidelity

You have both decided that you want to repair your marriage and that the damage of the emotional infidelity is not so great that you cannot recover. Forgiveness will take some time, and it may not be possible ever to forget, but with hard work on both sides, emotional affair recovery is possible. There is, however, one cardinal rule; absolute transparency in all that you do and say. The betrayed spouse is only too aware of emotional affair signs and will instantly know when their partner is withdrawing from them, or sharing with somebody else.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

What Percentage of Men Cheat?

Most people would agree that the sexes regard sexual liaisons differently, however, an emotional affair is non sexual, so is it mostly men or women who conduct emotional affairs? Absolute figures on this are hard to come by, especially as people who answer surveys on infidelity are notoriously unreliable in their answers! Statistics identify that according to the journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy, approximately 60 is the percentage of men who cheat and 50 percent of married women will, at some point in their marriage, have an extramarital affair.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

Believe you can change your life after the affair

Building self-confidence is about looking back at what worked and looking forward to what could work. You have survived an extramarital affair, it may not feel that way right now, but tell yourself enough times that you are a survivor and you will start to believe it. This is what is known as self-affirmation. It is what is practiced when you replaced negative thoughts with positive ones.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

Is he cheating on me? Why?

For most women who find out that their husband was cheating on them, the first question they ask themselves is, how could this happen? You may not have had any idea that your marriage was in trouble, or maybe you had asked yourself, is he cheating on me, and dismissed the notion as foolish, ridiculous, and unthinkable. Now, faced with the harsh reality of infidelity, and once the initial shock has passed your head will be full of these questions, which you may or may not get answers to.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

Warning! Marital affairs can seriously damage your emotional health!

The profound and powerful emotions, experienced upon discovering a marital affair, can cause significant emotional damage to the person experiencing them, if they are not handled properly. How can you handle the strong emotions triggered by a husband’s infidelity? Closing down and effectively shutting out anyone who can help is not the answer.r

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

Why you should avoid destructive emotions!

Affairs in marriage bring out the absolute worst in people, and make for good newspaper copy! Finding out that you are married to a cheating husband, is likely to trigger anger. Nobody would deny the right of a betrayed spouse to feel anger, but it is important that one be careful as to where that anger leads. The newspapers may make headlines out of anger and its consequences, “betrayed wife torches cheating husbands Ferrari” but generally speaking it is not a productive route to take.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

1,956 views

By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

Signs of a Cheating Best Friend

The impact of discovering your partner, girlfriend or boyfriend is having an affair maybe the best sucker punch. All you have committed to the connection from physical and emotional resolve for trust and understanding appears to possess been destroyed in under an immediate. The mind is of course racing and you're simply less than sure how to proceed next. However for you that isn't the worst part. The actual shock is it was together with your closest friend.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

1,898 views

By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

When he is having an affair – Dealing with the Hurt and Pain

Your world has just splintered, everything you took for granted is up for question now; you have just discovered your husband was having an affair, and the hurt is unbearable. Those first few moments when you find out that the person you love is a liar and a cheat, that he has been holding someone else in his arms, that he has betrayed you; those first few moments are the worst.

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

1,893 views

By Tammy DavidsonRecently published1 topic

Why do Men Cheat

While every guy differs, you will find a couple of reasons a number of them might have matters. A lot of women question why males cheat in it. It’s a time-old question, and there's nobody simple answer for each couple or situation. You will find, however, some common reasons males stray. Take a look at a couple of. Why do Men cheat? - they're Bored

Primary topic: Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

Overcoming Adultery and Infidelity

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