NOT "Just Friends"
Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity
Introduction
Good people in good marriages are having
affairs. More times than I can count, I have sat
in my office and felt torn apart by the grief,
rage, and remorse of the people I counsel as
they try to cope with the repercussions of their
infidelity or their partner's betrayal. In
two-thirds of the couples I've treated in my
clinical practice over the past twenty years,
either the husband, the wife, or both were
unfaithful. Broken promises and shattered
expectations have become part of our cultural
landscape, and more people who need help in
dealing with them appear in my office every day.
Surprisingly, the infidelity that I'm seeing
these days is of a new sort. It's not between
people who are intentionally seeking thrills, as
is commonly believed. The new infidelity is
between people who unwittingly form deep,
passionate connections before realizing that
they've crossed the line from platonic
friendship into romantic love. Eighty-two
percent of the 210 unfaithful partners I've ... read full excerpt from: NOT "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity ebook
