Welcome to Healing Broken Trust podcast. I'm Morgan Robinson.

And I am Brad Robinson.

And today we're talking about grief. So Brad, do you want to go ahead and get us started?

Sure. One of the things we're talking about, like Morgan mentioned,

is grief and basically how that plays a role in the healing process after an affair, after trust

has been broken. And Morgan, the shocking thing is, I think as a culture we recognize,

okay, you've been cheated on. There's going to be a lot of hurt, a lot of anger.

Sometimes there's even, you know, some cultures allow people to, they kind of get a little

benefit of the doubt.

If there's kind of a crime of passion, like you find out your spouse is cheated on you.

And if you go crazy, you know, or insane, you get, you know, you're, you may get it, you may have a

pardoned, yeah. But the reality is, is that both people are really grieving. Both people are,

I would, I would argue, really grieving and traumatized by the affair. Obviously, that may come later for the one who's

involved. Sometimes they have trust issues with their partner that they cheated on. And so they don't,

you know, the affairs discovered they don't just come out and aren't immediately remorseful. Sometimes

they are. You hope they are, but that's not always the case because they've sometimes

have their own issues with the relationship that they've begun to grieve that causes them or makes them

more vulnerable to seeking out an affair or participating in an affair. And so basically,

you know, we've talked a lot about PTSD in earlier episodes, and PTSD or trauma is just a fancy name for deep

emotional wounds. And when we have deep emotional wounds, oftentimes we're going to go through

a grief-like response, a grief process. This grief that people go through, it's, we're going to go through a grief-like response, a grief process. This grief that people go through,

it's, we're going to talk about the five stages of grieving. I've got some info I want to share that.

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