Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Resolving Infidelity Issues In A Relationship

By John S Laney

Infidelity - one partner cheating on the other, is one of the biggest causes of relationship breakups. If your mate cheated on you, or you on them, you know it feels like a bomb went off in the relationship. Because when trust is damaged, one person almost always feel like I can never trust him/her again.

This demonstrates how essential trust is to love and intimacy. When trust has been broken by infidelity, we often feel (at least for a while) that there's little hope of trusting again. Even if there is a lot we love about our partner, we don't see how we can be intimate and close with them again after such a betrayal.

So in order for the relationship to continue, trust needs to be restored. Fortunately, it can be, and it can start to happen in just minutes. Here's how:

Between you there needs to be delivered and accepted a Deep Apology. Most apologies don't work, but a Deep Apology is powerful.

Deep Apologies are the kinds of apologies needed to begin to restore trust once it has been broken. Deep Apologies are much more than saying Im sorry, no matter how much you mean it.

Deep apologies have several different steps involved in them before you actually say "I'm sorry." One important step is to empathize with your mate by mirroring the emotional pain you caused by cheating on them. You need to make your mate feel deeply understood to get to deeper levels of forgiveness.

There are some other things you need to do for a deep apology. However, don't just say "I'm sorry" and expect trust to be restored. It doesn't work that way. And, a good deep apology involves listening to your mate as much as speaking.

If, on the other hand, you were the one who got cheated on, there is a way to get a deep apology from your mate that can help you to release your hurt feelings and begin to restore trust beginning in just minutes. There's a lot more to this, but at least understand that if you are dealing with broken trust there are some ways to begin to restore it so you can save your relationship. - 16035

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