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Overcome Infidelity

Today, 60 percent of men and 40 percent of women have affairs.

Infidelity is the most painful and devastating experience that can be inflicted in a marriage. Remarkably, many marriages do survive. In fact, only 15 percent of divorces can be attributed to affairs. Statistically, about 70 percent of couples decide to work on their marriage and overcome infidelity. About 50 percent of couples succeed in repairing their marriage and making it stronger and better than before the affair.

How to Overcome Infidelity - 5 Phase Program

Dr. Jonathan Isaacson has developed a very effective and comprehensive program designed to help the couple overcome infidelity, rebuild trust, and restore the love in their marriage or relationship. This program is most effective when taken in sequence in therapy, along with your participation in your assignments outside our therapy sessions. It is presented in the order that has been most helpful to the couples we have counseled. And each part generally builds on each other.

Phase 1: Discovering the Affair and Dealing with the Trauma

Phase 2: Understanding the Reasons for Infidelity

Phase 3: Renewing the Marriage and Relationship

Phase 4: Moving Past the Affair

Phase 5: Protecting Your Love and Trust

Ideally, you and your spouse will go through the program together. Nevertheless, you can benefit from this program whether you do it alone or with your spouse. If you decide to end your marriage, an event as traumatic as an affair can negatively impact your future relationships, if not addressed adequately. If children are involved, it is critical to resolve any lingering resentments that may spill over into your co-parenting relationship and negatively impact your children.

This program evolved from Dr. Jonathan Isaacson's years of clinical practice working with couples trying to overcome the devastation of an affair. Although the word “marriage” is used, this includes couples in a committed relationship.

As a trained and experienced therapist, Dr. Jonathan Isaacson can help you navigate your overwhelming emotions, nagging doubts, and feelings of hopelessness. Moving on in a healthy way means recovering from the affair and creating the future you want, including making a conscious decision of whether or not you want to stay married. Be assured, most marriages survive affairs.

 

You and Your Marriage Can Overcome Infidelity

It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to rebuild trust and restore the love that was lost. In my practice, I treat affairs like an addiction. Affairs are built on romance, and romantic love is very much addictive. Recent studies show that a person in love has higher levels of certain hormones which causes euphoric feelings. The most effective treatment for addictions (such as drugs or alcohol) is complete abstinence.

All affairs fall within a continuum. Some lovers share intense emotional feelings. Some lovers have no emotional connection. This is especially true in a case of a one-night stand, which is particularly common among individuals who travel a lot. In today’s high tech world, there is an ever-growing problem with internet pornography, which is very much a form of infidelity. This type of addiction is the even more difficult to treat.

When working with the married couple, Dr. Jonathan Isaacson focuses on rebuilding the marriage and making it stronger than ever. At first glance, marital reconciliation seem hopeless. The emotional needs of the participating spouse can be so powerful that a person may be willing to jeopardize his or her marriage, family, career, job, financial security, and long-term goals. We all have emotional needs that can only be met by another person. When these needs are met, we feel happy and content. If not, we feel frustrated and empty.

Infidelity can have tragic consequences. The participating spouse may contract a sexually transmitted disease and infect the betrayed spouse. Pregnancies are common, with most ending in abortions. Those women who cannot go through an abortion face difficult choices. Sometimes they withhold information from their husband and their children about the real paternity. Sometimes the lover remains tormented not being able to be a part of his child’s life. Sometimes, the betrayed husband is devastated knowing that wife is pregnant with someone else’s child. Everyone loses.

Marriages can survive an extramarital affair. But it is not easy. There is mistrust, anger, grief, and feelings of hopelessness. But if the husband and wife can make a commitment to save their marriage, then they are well on their way to building a stronger marriage. Re-kindling the love you once had for each other and keeping the family intact makes it all worthwhile.

 

 

Counseling Couples and Families for 25 Years

Dr. Jonathan Isaacson

 

 

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