Healing Your Relationship After the Ugliness of Infidelity
John Lakvold
Infidelity is one of the messiest and most damaging things that can be done to a relationship. Frank Dattilio (2010), author of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with Couples and Families, believes that only physical abuse is more than detrimental to a long-term relationship. The effects of infidelity ripple like a tsunami destroying the long-term relationship and damaging everyone connected to the couple (i.e., children, parents, church community surrounding the couple, etc.). Infidelity is between an unfaithful partner and an affair partner. It comes in many forms. It can be emotional in nature. A simple definition of emotional infidelity is sharing things with the affair partner that you would not share with the...
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