Infatuation Rules
Infatuation Rules
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Experts say it's possible for couples to go on to have a happy relationship after infidelity, provided they're willing to put in the work. “The couple can survive and grow after an affair,” says Coleman.
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Read More »When someone says they’ve been cheated on, it’s easy to react with empathetic outrage and imagine a reality TV-style confrontation. But infidelity is not a new concept—as long as relationships have existed, someone has been transgressing whatever “rules” had been set up for them. Heartbreak-rage-move on is a formula that has fed every kind of pop culture for centuries, from the Bible to movie melodramas. Lifelong monogamy is still a cultural ideal. It’s easy to assume that infidelity would spell an automatic end to a partnership, but it’s not that simple—and that’s a good thing. Greater social equality between men and women, the rise of relationship and sex experts like Esther Perel, and diminishing stigma around going to therapy have all made it easier for couples to think beyond a binary “stay together or break up” choice in the wake of an intimate betrayal. But that doesn’t mean it’s actually gotten easier to move forward when one partner cheats on another. If there is one thing experts agree on when it comes to dealing with infidelity, it’s that while recovery is possible, rebuilding a healthy relationship is hard work. “It is a long road to recovery when one partner cheats,” licensed marriage and family therapist David Klow, owner of Skylight Counseling Center in Chicago, says. “Couples do and can stay together after an affair, but it takes a lot of work to repair broken trust.” Klow says most couples don’t recover when one cheats but “those that do can emerge stronger from having gone through the process of recovering from the affair.” It takes time, however. He says he’s seen it take at least a year, but it’s usually up to two years for a couple to heal. Manhattan-based licensed clinical psychologist Joseph Cilona, Psy.D., says that, due to the sensitive nature of the topic, it’s hard to know for sure how many couples stay together after infidelity. “Despite the ambiguous statistics, it seems reasonable to speculate that more couples are staying together after infidelity than not,” he says. There are a few factors that make a couple more likely to try to work it out, psychologist Paul Coleman, Psy.D., author of Finding Peace When Your Heart Is In Pieces, says —namely, whether they have strong commitments to one another like children or a house. “If a couple is dating or just started living together, there is less of a need to go through the work of rebuilding trust,” he says.
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Read More »What is the Difference Between Infidelity and Adultery? Adultery often refers to a physical relationship outside of marriage. It occurs when one partner is sexually involved with another without their partner's consent. Unlike adultery, infidelity can be physical, emotional, or both.
Adultery often refers to a physical relationship outside of marriage. It occurs when one partner is sexually involved with another without their partner's consent. Unlike adultery, infidelity can be physical, emotional, or both. In some states and jurisdictions, adultery is the term used as legal grounds for divorce. Infidelity is the act of being unfaithful to a committed partner. The criteria that define infidelity can vary based on personal values, beliefs, and expectations. As such, certain behaviors or interactions may be acceptable to one couple but not to another. For example, one couple may feel it's inappropriate to go to lunch with a co-worker of the opposite gender if it's just the two of you. Yet, another doesn't consider going to lunch together as harmful. As you might imagine, there's a broad spectrum when it comes to defining what is acceptable within a relationship. However, the definition between the two of you is what determines when a betrayal occurs.
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