Infidelity Counseling
Helping Ohio couples navigate the aftermath of infidelity.
“Live the least secretive life you can.”
Nobody wakes up and decides to be unfaithful. It’s a heavy weight and burden when choices have been made to be unfaithful. Keeping secrets, deception, crushing your mate and throwing everything you have always held dear down the drain is the last thing you thought you would ever do.
Infidelity is a heavy burden on the betrayed partner and the unfaithful partner.
Nothing is more shocking, more devastating, and more life changing than finding out your partner has been unfaithful. There are so many questions.
As the betrayed partner, you are likely asking yourself any number of questions.
How did this happen?
How could I be so blind and so foolish?
How can I trust you again? Ever.
How can I function when I don’t know what’s real and what isn’t?
How do I know I can trust the changes you say you are making?
Having an affair has a way of bringing everything to the surface.
But here’s the thing. So many couples who go through this find that they come out the other end of this hell even stronger, better, with a new set of tools and skills that last a lifetime.
There is hope and there are solutions.
What you may be experiencing:
As the betrayed, you may be experiencing:
out of control emotional reactions and flooding
triggers all throughout the day in the home, and while you’re out
feeling as though someone has died
grief
mistrust of your memories with your partner, and
mistrust of the future.
As the unfaithful, you may be experiencing:
defensiveness
feeling attacked
overwhelming guilt and shame, or the opposite feeling of numbness and detachment,
fear, trauma, anger, resentment
overwhelming distraction by your mate’s devastation, and
wanting nothing more than to help but everything you do seems to make it worse.
