For the unfaithful partner things might not be any better. Although they don’t have the shock or devastation at discovering an affair has been happening they often feel intense guilt and shame over their actions and will suffer from stress even if they decide to continue the affair and leave the partnership. If the unfaithful partner does want to rebuild the relationship after an affair they are likely to need a lot of support to break ties with the affair partner and restore trust in the original relationship. In this situation our team of therapists would meet with the couple to discuss what they wanted for the future and outline a plan for affair recovery. 

If your relationship has been impacted by an affair, speak to one of our team confidentially to find out more about affair recovery therapy.

Affair Recovery

Being thrown into an affair situation by your partner's unfaithfulness is an extremely challenging experience. Overnight, it can catapult you into many difficult emotions of shame, regret, loss, anger and hopelessness. Typically betrayed partners find that there are very few people to turn to when their partner has cheated on them because friends and family, whilst they may do their best to be supportive, are often also hurt by the affair. They may not be able to see past their own pain to offer a balanced view of how to move forward with recovery. Yet this is the moment when the betrayed partner MOST needs emotional support. As relationship therapists we offer a supportive non-judgemental space to talk freely about what has happened before and after an affair. We also help partners in the early days of affair disclosure to make sense of the swirling emotions and make some decisions.