There are often many difficult emotions associated with infidelity. Both for the hurt party, but often also for the party who has been unfaithful. For many, infidelity is a reason for divorce or relationship breakdown. But there may be other ways to repair the damage caused by the infidelity. Research shows that 30% of divorcing couples regret divorce. In couples therapy, we work to repair the breakup. Part of that process is working towards the cheater wanting to be there emotionally for their partner again. Part of it is also a willingness to be curious together about what led up to the infidelity. There is also a part that is about daring to trust the cheating partner again. And it’s also about being able to listen to hurt feelings before hope, trust and renewed faith in the future can be created for you as a couple.
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Help for the relationship
– Finding each other again
The goal of couples counselling will often be to find your way back to that safe emotional connection between you as a couple. To find your way back to the safe place you know and recognise yourselves and your partner in, which you feel challenged right now. Another goal can be to deepen the emotional connection so that the vulnerabilities, painful places or traumas you bring into the relationship can be shared and become part of the intimacy and closeness between you, værdier i et forhold. So when your wounds are triggered, it doesn’t necessarily lead to the distance between you increasing, but instead to the emotional safe bond between you strengthening.
What should we expect?
My work is based on Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. Part of the work is to get the tools to create that safe emotional connection again when there are doubts about whether my partner is there for me, i.e. whether he or she is emotionally available, committed to me and us, and responds when I need him or her. Together we will be curious about the patterns that take you away from each other and you will be given tools to restore the good contact.
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