Six Tips for Dealing with Infidelity
By Susie and Otto Collins, Relationship Coaches
Many relationship
breakups happen because of the infidelity issues with one or both people in the
relationship. What many people don't
realize is that their success rate in their current relationship, as well as future
relationships, depends to a large extent on how much they heal this issue and
how they move on with their lives.
There are six tips that are important to know when dealing
with an affair that threatens to tear the relationship apart. These tips are
areas that you must deal with in order to heal, let go and move on to creating
more love in their lives.
With that being said-here are the six tips:
Tip #1: If there has been infidelity and
your partner was the one who was unfaithful, make sure that you take the time
to figure out how the relationship went wrong and what you might have done
differently. In many cases, infidelity
and affairs
would never happen if people understood how each person sabotages the
relationship. Because people don't take the time to figure out what their part
in the relationship breakup was, when they get into new relationships, those
relationships often end in break ups and divorce
which are commonplace today.
Tip #2: Both of you need to decide whether there is enough
love and desire between you to begin to rebuild your relationship or move on
separately and begin dating
other people. In order to make the best
decision possible, you need to take time for yourself and answer questions that
will tell you whether you want to get a divorce or not.
Tip #3: If you decide
that there is enough love and desire between you to begin to rebuild your
relationship, you need to figure out what the key issues are that separated the
two of you. If you had jealousy
issues in the relationship, you need to overcome jealousy before you can heal
this relationship or even move on to a new relationship. You may have been in a
series of past relationships where your partner cheated on you. You may have low self-esteem issues. You may have had a habit of flirting with
people other than your partner to get your partner's attention. Whatever the
reason, jealousy eventually tends to destroy relationships and the time to heal
it is now. Take the time to identify your jealousy issues and to actively begin
to learn strategies that will help you to overcome this monster that tears up
any relationship.
Tip #4: Identify what it means to make amends in the
relationship and then begin doing those things.
This is absolutely necessary if you are to build relationship trust. When there has been an affair and you have
been hurt, it's often difficult to open your heart one more time. Take the time
to begin learning to trust again and that begins with learning to trust yourself first. Begin
identifying what both of you are willing to do to start to build trust with
each other.
Tip #5: Begin actively doing things to heal your broken heart. When a relationship has experienced one
person having an affair, it's often tempting to wallow in your pain and to
continuously blame the other person.
While it's important for you to allow yourself to grieve and to feel
pain, it's also important to begin looking at your situation with realistic
eyes. What does each person want at their core? It's important to be proactive instead of
static or frozen.
Tip #6: If there is a problem with your love making, fearlessly and
honestly tackle that issue. If you have decided to give it a shot at rebuilding
your relationship, you can have it as your intention to have more connected love
making but unless you address the reasons that infidelity happened in the first
place, the relationship will not have a chance to succeed..
In order to heal and move on from an affair, you have to
begin envisioning what you want for your romantic
relationship. We've found that when you have a clear idea about exactly what
you want in your relationship, you can create a soul mate relationship.
There are many free relationship
advice resources that deal with helping you get over the damage that an
affair causes. We suggest that you do
some reading and then begin shaping your life the way you want it to be. Our love advice to you is don't
automatically get out of the relationship but take some time to figure out if your
relationship is worth saving and if you both want to rebuild it.
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