Peace and Rich's blessings. I am Michael B. I'm the host of Take Back Your Mind.

Podcast Life Question of the Week.

And today, Soraya from London is asking this question. Last month, I discovered my husband has been having an affair for eight months.

Of course, I am devastated, as this is the biggest betrayal I've endured in my adulthood.

I don't know how to navigate my feelings and my spirituality throughout it all.

What advice can you offer me on how to proceed forward emotionally and spiritually?

First of all, let me say, you know, Soraya, my heart goes out to you. You use the word

devastated and betrayal. So I can feel that. You're feeling devastated that you were in a very wonderful marriage, so to speak,

and you found out your husband was having an affair with someone.

And you're asking how to navigate your feelings through this.

First of all, don't sublimate, repress, or suppress any of your emotions.

Let them be what they're going to be.

Betrayal of someone close is one of the hardest things to forgive. Now, I don't have any

information here as to how long you've been married, whether any issues in the marriage,

what your conversation with your husband has been like. I don't have any of that information so I'm just

speaking with what I have here

So that you begin to be aware that in many cases

When infidelity comes up in a relationship

Whether it's the man or the wife or the husband,

it can be a time when the relationship is over,

or it can be a time in which there is a rebirth, a renewal of the relationship.

I was counseling a couple of years ago who had been married for a while

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