Reassurance after infidelity can work beautifully for an hour and seem to disappear by the following morning. Your partner answers the question clearly, perhaps shows you something that confirms the answer, and you feel calmer. Then a new trigger arrives - or sometimes merely an old memory - and suddenly you need the reassurance again.
Frustration and hopelessness can easily take over after you disclose infidelity. You may have already apologized, ended the affair, tried to be patient, and genuinely committed yourself to healing the relationship. Yet, from your perspective, it may still feel as though nothing you say or do helps for very long. This article is written for
Discovering infidelity can be devastating, and some hurt partners begin to wonder whether they have been traumatized by betrayal rather than simply heartbroken. Many hurt partners feel grief, anger, humiliation, fear, and confusion about what the relationship now means. But some people experience something more destabilizing than betrayal and heartbreak. Their mind will not stop
