Can marriage counseling help you heal from infidelity? The answer is a definite yes! Infidelity causes deep pain and heartache for both the injured partner and the partner who cheated. It is a betrayal and causes trauma in the relationship. Trust is broken. The person who was cheated on can have PTSD, intrusive thoughts, anxiety, and intense emotional reactions. The injuring partner experiences shame, guilt, and emotional pain for inflicting so much pain on their partner. Healing from infidelity requires a commitment to marriage counseling. For most couples, it requires a commitment of 6 months or longer in therapy. Marriage counseling can help couples rebuild trust, understand the root causes of infidelity, improve communication, and increase emotional connection.
Here Are Four Ways Marriage Counseling Can Help Recover From Infidelity:
Rebuilding Trust:
Marriage counseling can help couples rebuild trust by hearing each other’s pain and working through it together. A marriage therapist will help couples be transparent, take accountability for their actions, and be consistent with their actions. The injured partner will be able to express their pain to their partner who cheated and their partner will validate their pain and apologize for causing their pain.
Understand the Root Causes of Infidelity:
Marriage therapy can help couples delve into the underlying issues that may have contributed to the infidelity. This in no way is an excuse for infidelity. If the partner who cheated was feeling lonely or unhappy in the marriage, they should have been open and honest with their partner and not turned to someone else to meet their needs. However, understanding the root causes is crucial for addressing them and learning how to meet each other’s emotional needs.
Improve Communication:
Marriage counseling creates a safe place where couples can express their feelings, concerns, and pain without judgment. Couples learn their negative pattern of communication. In Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, couples learn that this negative pattern or dance developed over time and became worse, causing an emotional disconnection. The therapist will help them slow their communication down, help them see what they both do in this dance and how they feel when it happens, and then help them step out of it so they can talk in a better way together.
Increase Emotional Connection:
In couples therapy, couples learn to hear each other’s pain, increase their vulnerability with open and honest communication, and feel validated and heard. This increases the emotional connection and safety in the relationship.
Are You Recovering From Infidelity? Get the Help You Need in Marriage Counseling in Boca Raton, FL.
Healing from infidelity is possible. It isn’t easy. It takes time and commitment. There will be pain, and tears shed but through the tears healing and growth will come. Couples can recover and be stronger than in the past. They can create a whole new relationship and rekindle the spark! Marriage counseling is the key to recovering from infidelity. You will rebuild trust, understand why it happened, improve communication and increase your emotional connection! Don’t try to go through this alone. Let a professional and experienced therapist help you navigate through this pain and come through stronger and better together!
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Other Mental Health Services Offered at Heart Connection Center in Boca Raton, FL.
In addition to Couples Therapy, Heart Connection Center offers a wide variety of mental health services to meet you wherever you are at in your life. These include Women’s Counseling, Men’s Counseling, Anxiety Treatment, Child and Teen Counseling, Depression Treatment, and Intensive Couples Counseling. We also offer our services in an online therapy format as well.
