After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful - Softcover

Janis Abrahms Spring

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060928174 ISBN 13: 9780060928179

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2004

Synopsis

For the 70 percent of couples who have been affected by extramarital affairs, this is the only book to offer proven strategies for surviving the crisis and rebuilding the relationship –– written by a nationally known therapist considered an expert on infidelity.

When I was 15, I was raped. That was nothing compared to your affair. The rapist was a stranger; you, I thought, were my best friend.

There is nothing quite like the pain and shock caused when a partner has been unfaithful. The hurt partner often experiences a profound loss of self–respect and falls into a depression that can last for years. For the relationship, infidelity is often a death blow.

After the Affair is the first book to help readers survive this crisis. Written by a clinical psychologist who has been treating distressed couples for 22 years, it guides both hurt and unfaithful partners through the three stages of healing: Normalizing feelings, deciding whether to recommit and revitalizing the relationship. It provides proven, practical advice to help the couple change their behavior toward each other, cultivate trust and forgiveness and build a healthier, more conscious intimate partnership.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

After the Affair teaches partners how to heal themselves and grow from theshattering crisis of an infidelity. Drawing on thirty-five years as a clinicalpsychologist, Dr. Spring offers a series of original and proven strategies thataddress such questions as: * Why did it happen? * Once love and trust aregone, can we ever get them back? * Can I—should I—recommit when I feelso ambivalent? * How do we become sexually intimate again? * Is forgivenesspossible? * What constitutes an affair in cyberspace?

Synopsis:

A guide for couples provides exercises to help readers overcome feelings of betrayal and recommit to marriage.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060928174
• ISBN 13: 9780060928179
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304