From: Amy Waterman
Dear Friend,
An affair is the most painful betrayal a marriage can suffer, and right now you are living through it.
When you said your vows, you both promised to stay together for better or for worse. Your partner broke that promise, and now the questions won’t leave you alone. Will they leave you for the other person? Will you ever be able to trust them again? Is it true that “once a cheater, always a cheater”?
You don’t have to find the answers on your own. There are things you should do in the weeks after an affair and things you should never do, and none of us is ever taught which is which. What you do in these weeks goes a long way to deciding whether your marriage survives.
Nearly everyone who discovers an affair wants every detail: where they met, how often, what happened between them. Richard Wheeler has heard those questions from his clients again and again, and his answer is one most people find hard to believe at first.
Do you really know what to do now that you’ve found out?
Your friends and family mean well, but they are trying to protect you, so they mostly tell you what you want to hear. What you need now is honest advice about rebuilding a marriage after an affair, and the courage to act on it.
If you believe the affair happened only because your partner was weak-willed, it’s time to look for the truth. There is always more to an affair than one person’s weak will. As I said to Richard while we were recording the course, the grounds for an affair are laid long before the affair itself begins.
Your friends and family won’t tell you that. We will tell you the truth about why affairs happen, and what you do with it is up to you. If you are reading this, I believe you are ready to stop feeling like a helpless victim and start repairing the damage.
That’s why we made How to Save Your Marriage When Your Partner Has Cheated on You. Clinical psychologist Richard Wheeler leads it, and I join him on the panel. Together we take you step by step through the issues a couple must face if they are committed to saving their marriage, and through the decisions you’ll need to make with a clear head while you hold the rest of your life together, especially if you have children.




