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Dr. Robert Huizenga, CSW, LMFT, The Infidelity Coach, is a relationship coach, author, and Marriage and Family Therapist. With a Doctorate of Ministry in Marriage and Family Therapy, Dr. Huizenga has maintained a private practice for the past two decades serving hundreds of couples and thousands of individuals. Within the past five years he has focused on research and study in the area of marital infidelity. He is also the author of an ebook: ... [More]

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Surviving Infidelity - Keys to Overcoming and Coping With the Affair
[Relationships:Affairs] Surviving infidelity and an affair IS possible. It may not feel that way if you've recently uncovered the affair of your spouse or partner. If you have just uncovered the affair, or the suspicions of infidelity are so intense that they're driving you out of your mind, then, you know what I'm talking about.

Save My Marriage? The KEY Question - Do You REALLY Want to Be Married to Him-Her? Part 2
[Relationships:Affairs] Your spouse has been unfaithful, and you decide to work on the marriage. Before you move on, you must first ask yourself this very important question using brutal honesty.

Marriage Help and Infidelity? The KEY Question - Do You REALLY Want to Be Married to Him-Her? Part 1
[Relationships:Affairs] This article addresses the key question one must ask when faced with Affair #1 - the "My Marriage Made Me do it" type of affair. Learn how to answer the question, "Do I really want to be married to him/her?" using honesty and integrity.

Extramarital Affair Quickie #3 - Rebuilding the Broken Trust
[Relationships:Affairs] Rebuilding a marriage after infidelity is often marked by the lack of trust and avoidance of powerful underlying themes. Learn what to say and do for different kinds of affairs.

Infidelity - 3 Key Points in the Emotional Affair
[Relationships:Affairs] One kind of extramarital affair centers on the emotional component. The offending spouse "falls in love" as popularly atated, searching for the emotionally high feelings that s/he believes is normative in a relationship of investment or marriage. The need to be "in love" underlies an affair that results in drama and a futile search to find one's core.

Infidelity Quickie #4 - Finding a Purpose in Depression
[Relationships:Affairs] Surviving and coping with infidelity presents specific challenges for the sensitive person. Discover ways this person shifted from depression to hope. Note the ways in her struggle with extramarital affairs and a history of abuse in which she was able to move from the victim role to empowerment.

An Extramarital Affair - Breathing Easier
[Relationships:Affairs] Learn from this real time coaching scenario key strategies a person can use to cope with the negativity of infidelity. The first section presents a summary of the problem and or concerns of the "offended" spouse and what she would truly like to convey to her unfaithful husband. I then outline some goals that help him/her break free from the affair.

Extramarital Affair Tactics - When to Act and When to Wait
[Relationships:Affairs] There are three distinct periods of waiting with an extramarital affair. Coping with infidelity means, first, waiting for the cheating spouse or situation to change. Marital infidelity then requires that the "offended" spouse wait until s/he is comfortable to act wisely and effectively. And third, the marital partners wait for the effects of infidelity to be played out according to the predictable patterns of different kinds of affairs.

The Infidelity Nightmare - A Story of Courage
[Relationships:Affairs] Infidelity and marital affairs generate powerful feelings - fear being one of them. The fears of the unknown and being alone are prominent. A "victim" of infidelity and an extramarital affair shares how she faced her fears and transformed her life and relationships.

The Key Question You Ask And Must Have Answered - Part II
[Relationships:Affairs] When confronting infidelity or an extramarital affair there is one pressing underlying questions that most, if not all people, facing infidelity ask.

Astronaut Crashes! I'm Not Surprised
[Relationships:Affairs] The love triangle and infidelity of astronaut Lisa Novak, astronaut William Oefelein and engineer Colleen Shipman ought not come as a surprise. A particular set of conditions can produce predictable kinds of affairs.

The Key Question You Ask And Must Have Answered Even Though You Probably Don't Know You Are Asking
[Relationships:Affairs] When confronting infidelity or an extramarital affair there is one pressing underlying questions that most, if not all people, facing infidelity ask.

Infidelity Quickie #8 - Cheated Three Times - Who's In Control?
[Relationships:Affairs] The "offended spouse" in a marital affair may possess tremendous strength but not realize the fact nor express constructively that strength. Learn how to maximize and utilize that strength.

Romance Is Overrated - Get Over It And Move Beyond It!
[Relationships] Infidelity and extramarital affairs often bring romance into focus. The need for romance can be the surface symptom for underlying personal needs and urges. Learn to move beyond romance.

Infidelity Recovery: What is It with Men?
[Relationships] Men, or more precisely polarized couples, find difficulty in fully committing to recovery from infidelity or an extramarital affair.

Marital Infidelity: 11 Stubborn Barriers to "Making Over" Your Relationship
[Relationships] Common persistent barriers are identified that create havoc for a couple recovering from an extramarital affair and marital infidelity.

Marital Infidelity Recovery: 6 Reason NOT to Work on the Marriage
[Relationships] "Working on the relationship" for a couple recovering from infidelity often becomes drudgery. Learn why "working on the relationship" leads to unwanted results.

Infidelity Recovery for a Relationship: A HUGE Problem
[Relationships] Discover 3 huge barriers that inhibit couples recovering from infidelity to survive the extramarital affair and rebuild their marriage.

Extramarital Affair: Their Sex is Not Always "Hot"
[Relationships:Sexuality] The spouse cheated upon need not idealize the sexual encounter between his/her cheating spouse and the other person. Those describing their extramarital affair in infidelity coaching often portray a less than satisfying sexual encounter.

Day of Discovery: I'm a Mess! Do I Need Meds?
[Relationships:Divorce] Eplore the possibility of using medication when confronted with infidelity and the intensity of your feelings.

Infidelity - Day of Discovery: How to "Hold" Your Feelings
[Relationships:Divorce] Infidelity generates powerful negative feelings. Learn a simple tool that helps control those feelings.

Infidelity Discovered: Why He/She Won't Tell Me the Truth?
[Relationships] The need to know is very powerful for some individuals upon the discovery of an extramarital affair. Listed are very specific reasons for the need to know.

Infidelity: Why the Need to Know is So Strong
[Relationships] Those who encounter infidelity often have a powerful need to know details of the extramarital affair. This article presents 6 reasons.

Emotional Infidelity: A Love Affair or Just Friends?
[Relationships:Affairs] Learn the distinctions between two seeminly similar types of emotional affairs, the "just friends" affair and the "falling in love" affair.

Signs of Infidelity: My Marriage Made Me Do It
[Relationships:Marriage] Learn the distinctive signs for one of several different types of affairs.

Signs of a Cheating Spouse...and How They Differ from Signs of Infidelity
[Relationships:Wedding] Learn the subtle differences between cheating and infidelity.

Sign of Affair: I Fell Out of Love...and Just Love Being in Love
[Relationships:Sexuality] Learn the distinctive signs for one of several different types of affairs.

Relationship Crisis: 6 Reasons to Get Physically Fit
[Relationships] Discover the vital importance of physical fitness while in the midst of a relationship crisis.

Infidelity: Difference Between a Rage and Revenge Affair
[Relationships:Wedding] A revenge affair often presents an opportunity to strengthen a marriage. Such is not true when rage results in infidelity. Be informed and learn the difference.

Emotional Infidelity: A KEY Tactic to Save the Marriage
[Relationships:Divorce] Learn the one important technique to possibly save your marraige if your partner is having an emotional affair.

Infidelity Discovered? 10 Ways to Calm Your Powerful Feelings
[Relationships:Sexuality] The discovery of a cheating spouse triggers powerful feelings. Learn 10 ways to manage and transform those feelings.

Sexually Addicted? 10 Important Questions to Ask
[Relationships:Sexuality] Are you or your partner sexually addicted? Learn the difference between a healthy sexual drive and sexual addiction by asking yourself 10 pertinent questions.

Infidelity Excuse: I Fell Out of Love... and Just Love Being in Love
[Relationships] Discover the eight key points to consider when a betraying partner says, "I fell out of love with you."

Adultery as Sexual Addiction: Should You Stay Married?
[Self-Improvement:Addictions] Discover some pointed questions one should ask him/herself when considering leaving a marriage where adultery and sexual addiction are problematic.

The Revenge Affair: Characteristics of the Adulterer
[Relationships:Affairs] It's important to distinguish between an affair of rage and an affair of revenge. This article describes the characteristics of a person who initiates a revenge affair.

Extramarital Affairs: When Sexual Addiction and Infidelity Meet
[Relationships:Affairs] Sometimes, not always, sexual addiction and infidelity go hand and hand. Learn six ways in which sexual addiction is expressed through extramarital affairs.

Relationship Tips: 16 Practical Dramatic Ways to Know if He/She is REALLY Changing
[Relationships] When there is crisis in a relationship, one person often promises, "I'm going to change." Here are some practical signs that your spouse or significant other is truly changing for the better.

Infidelity: How "My Marriage Made Me Do It" is a Cop-out
[Relationships:Marriage] Learn what it really means when your partner says, "I'm having an affair because we have a lousy marriage."

46 Clues Your Partner is Having an Affair
[Relationships:Affairs] Some serious and other not-so-serious clues that your partner might be having an affair.

Cheating Spouse: 7 Legitimate Motives for Spying
[Relationships:Affairs] Discover authentic motives and reasons for spying in a relationship facing marital infidelity.

Cheating Husband/Wife: 6 Keys to Know if You are Ready to Handle What You Might Find When You Spy
[Relationships:Affairs] Spying on a cheating husband or wife creates many dilemmas for the spying spouse. A spying spouse can determine with accuracy possible outcomes.

Cheating Spouse: Is Spying an Invasion of Privacy?
[Relationships:Affairs] This article faces the ethical dilemma and some practical implications of spying on a cheating spouse.

Infidelity: Spying is NOT Revenge
[Relationships] A person intent upon spying on a cheating wife or cheating husband needs to consider the revenge factor.

10 Crucial and Surprising Steps to Build Trust in a Relationship
[Relationships] Learn 10 strategies to rebuild a relationship scarred by crisis.

Extramarital Affairs: What Everyone Needs to Know and What You Can Do to Help
[Relationships:Wedding] Studies suggest that up to 80% of marriages will at one point have a spouse involved in an extramarital affair. Discover what can be done to help alleviate the pain of this profoundly powerful relationship crisis.