Marriage Therapy for Infidelity? The Risks You Need to Know
About this episode
The episode discusses the risks of marriage therapy for infidelity and its impact on emotional safety for betrayed partners.
By the time many women find Betrayal Trauma Recovery they’ve already been through years of couples counseling, addiction therapy, or programs focused on marriage therapy for infidelity , hoping a professional will help them finally piece together what really happened. Therapists in recovery programs sometimes use a tool called a therapeutic disclosure to guide the couple to the “whole truth” about a husband’s history of addiction, secrecy, and infidelity. But these disclosures take months, even up to a year to complete, leaving his wife waiting on more information about the betrayals, being re-traumatized by each new revelation, and potentially exposing her to more lies and emotional abuse. To see if any of the things he’s disclosing qualify as emotional abuse, take our free emotional abuse test . 5 WAYS MARRIAGE THERAPY FOR INFIDELITY DELAYS EMOTIONAL SAFETY 1. Marriage Therapy for Infidelity Often Starts WITH THE WRONG QUESTION Marriage therapy for infidelity often starts by focusing on “why” a husband lied and cheated, even going so far as to frame it as a “marriage issue.” In this case, the betrayed wife is asked to patiently wait through…
People in this episode
Host: Anne Blythe
Topics covered
- infidelity
- marriage therapy
- emotional safety
- betrayal trauma
- couples counseling
Keywords
- infidelity
- marriage therapy
- emotional abuse
- betrayal trauma
- couples counseling
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Betrayal Trauma Recovery
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