Ep 17 - Can I forget the affair and put it behind me?, Our past and this present betrayal, How do I handle the intrusive thoughts?
Healing Broken Trust In Your Marriage After Infidelity
Brad and Morgan Robinson
4.6 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
We answer the questions of: I have been struggling with my spouse’s affair for a year now. I just can't stop thinking about it and I have nightmares. I still feel like it happened yesterday. How do I know when I need to seek individual counseling? Is it possible to forget the affair and put it behind me? Is it important to deal with our past when we’re dealing with this present betrayal? How do I handle the intrusive thoughts? Symptoms of PTSD are further explained and triggers are better understood in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | And you'll see as people go on and if they don't deal with the betrayal, this anger is there. |
| 0:04.2 | And this is usually the betrayed person. |
| 0:06.1 | If it's a woman, I'm not being sexist, but they'll become more critical. |
| 0:09.4 | If it's a guy, they become more critical. |
| 0:10.8 | And that will be probably what ends up really hurting the marriage after. |
| 0:14.9 | I mean, obviously the affair did, but they didn't deal with the affair when it happened. |
| 0:17.9 | And so they may go years. And then that person just has a chip on |
| 0:21.0 | their shoulder. They're very bitter. And that bitterness, that criticalness, that anger, that |
| 0:26.0 | angry response, things really kind of causes the rest of the marriage that continue to |
| 0:30.2 | towards destruction. Yeah. |
| 0:44.4 | You're listening to Healing Broken Trust podcast with Brad and Morgan Robinson, where we talk about healing from affairs, infidelity, trust, and cheating in your relationship from the |
| 0:49.2 | perspective of a professional marriage therapist and affair recovery expert. If you're |
| 0:53.5 | wanting to heal your |
| 0:54.6 | relationship after infidelity, this podcast is for you. And we're officially on episode number 17, |
| 1:01.9 | how to handle the crazy emotional roller coaster. It's a four-part series on trauma. And if you |
| 1:08.9 | haven't already, go back to episode 15 and 16 make sure to download and listen |
| 1:13.4 | to those it would also be helpful to listen to episode one where we talk about the seven stages |
| 1:18.6 | of the affair recovery process so that you can really understand where this section comes |
| 1:23.8 | in the grand scheme of things so you can kind of put it perspective, why we're talking about trauma and why it's so |
| 1:30.6 | important. |
| 1:31.4 | All right. |
| 1:32.1 | So before I forget, let's go to healingbroken trust.com forward slash episode 17. |
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