How to Help Your Spouse Heal From Your Affair: A Compact Manual for the Unfaithful

As an infidelity specialist for 25 years, therapist Linda J. MacDonald has identified behaviors and attitudes that determine unfaithful persons' success or failure to mend their marriages after an affair. How to Help Your Spouse Heal from Your Affair offers practical advice for those who've strayed and want a second chance. Learn what Successful Rebuilders know: * How to avoid the potholes that doom marriages after affairs* Critical guidelines for the first hours after discovery * 15 essential steps for repair after betrayal* Skills to cope with your partner's obsessions and "triggers"* Ways to undo the damage from your lies * The keys to avoid prolonging your spouse's agony (and yours)* The difference between helpful and harmful apologies* How to rebuild your broken life, relationships, and integrity BACK OF THE BOOK Most unfaithful partners underestimate the breadth and depth of the fallout after infidelity. If you have had an affair but have regrets and hope to save your marriage, don't let another mistake-ridden day go by without reading this book! Or, if you are the injured spouse and your unfaithful partner keeps hurting you with his/her attempts to help you feel better in all the wrong ways, put this manual into your spouse's hands right away. Find out for yourself what the difference is between those who blow up their marriages in the aftermath of affairs and those who successfully manage to repair and rebuild their marriages into better-than-ever relationships. How to Help Your Spouse Heal from Your Affair provides a practical road map for unfaithful spouses who wish to have another chance with their partners. Easy to read, even for the self-help book phobic! "Your material in How to Help Your Spouse Heal from Your Affair is absolutely excellent. I have counseled for twenty-five years and found it well-done, balanced, and accurate." -Jim Velez M.S., M.A., L.P.C., Portland, Oregon

Author: Agnes Cunningham Lawless, Linda J. MacDonald
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 11/24/2010
Pages: 98
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781450553322
ISBN10: 145055332X
BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Marriage & Long Term Relationships
- Family & Relationships | Love & Romance

About the Author
Linda J. MacDonald, MS, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist with 25 years' experience specializing in helping couples and individuals heal from infidelity. She graduated from Seattle Pacific University in 1988 with a Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. She has been in private practice since 1987 and currently works at The Shepherd's Center for Psychological Services, Gig Harbor, Washington. Along with her love of counseling, Linda is a workshop leader, freelance writer, and author of the widely used one-act play, Broken Heart, with estimated audiences of over 3 million world wide. She has conducted workshops on a variety of topics, such as: Healthy Dating, Healing the Root of Bitterness, The Healing Power of Apology, Conflict Resolution, Healing Abandonment Grief, and Recovering from Intimate Betrayal. Linda is married to Dan MacDonald who is a Chaplain with the Franciscan Health System. They have four adult children between them and enjoy such activities as hiking, kayaking, camping, reading, and long walks. They also enjoy doing volunteer work with Celebrate Recovery, teaching opportunities, marriage education, and retreats. Check out Linda's website for free articles and other publications. http: //www.lindajmacdonald.com

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