Rebuilding Marriage After Infidelity Community Group
A community for those who have been through the heartbreak of infidelity and decided to stay with their partner and try to re-build the relationship.
A community for those who have been through the heartbreak of infidelity and decided to stay with their partner and try to re-build the relationship.
Narrative Reconstruction
http://healinginfidelity.blogspot.com/2013/10/narrative-reconstruction.html
And see if he'll agree to read it, telling him it explains what is going on with you, that you are losing hope. Then give him time to digest it and see what he does.
May I ask why you've chosen to stay when he's not doing his part? Do you have kids together? If your still hoping For a rebuild I think first attempting to get into mc with him. If he refuses or it doesn't pan out, then I suggest the 180.
The great thing about the 180 is it teaches you that you can thrive on your own and shows the cs that you are not some door matt waiting to be walked on.
It will either shake his world and inspire him to make changes or inspire you to walk away with confidence.
Part of rebuilding is eventually drawing a line and deciding that anything that happened before X date is in the past. If you married him after Dday then you drew that line. Maybe individual counselling would be a good starting point so that you can work through this before suggesting marriage counseling again? You might be able to work this out on your own.
Do you think he's the type of person who will cheat again? Or was it one bad blip in an otherwise clean record?
This is pretty common in the time right after D-day, but I'm concerned that you're still not eating and sleeping and feel so disconnected. Sometimes Rebuilding is about rebuilding ourselves and not necessarily the relationship. The power balance seems so unequal in your relationship.
I really, really think that individual counseling will help you figure out what you want and how to get unstuck. The longer you stay in this place, the bigger the chance of it turning into chronic depression and a host of other destructive things. Most rebuilding couples have a decade or more of good memories and history to draw on to get them over the hump. It's a lot tougher when infidelity is there from the beginning.
Best to you. This is a tough situation but you can get yourself out!
I don't know if you ised the puzzle analogy with your H - i think you have tried just about everything!
Maybe this will help better illustrate the importance of why you need as much information as YOU want.
https://www.affairrecovery.com/newsletter/founder/survive-an-affair-how-much-to-tell
It breaks my heart that he doesn't see the physical toll this has taken on you!