As you mentioned, there are several reasons why a partner would cheat. The Mayo Clinic provides the following reasons and also recommends counseling to help piece together the relationship if both partners are committed to the process.
Marital recovery
Recovering from an affair is a difficult and ongoing process. But it's possible to survive an affair. Marriage counseling can help you put the affair into perspective, explore underlying marital problems, learn how to rebuild and strengthen your relationship, and avoid divorce — if that's the mutual goal.
Understanding why an affair happened is crucial to recovering your marriage. Affairs can happen in happy relationships as well as troubled ones. The reasons vary:
* The involved partner not getting enough from the marriage relationship or, conversely, not contributing enough to it
* Low self-esteem
* An addiction to sex, love or romance
* Fear of intimacy
* Immaturity
* A life transition, such as the birth of a child or an empty nest
* Acting on impulse while under the influence of alcohol or other drugs
* Retaliation
* A means of ending an unhappy marriage
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As you mentioned, there are several reasons why a partner would cheat. The Mayo Clinic provides the following reasons and also recommends counseling to help piece together the relationship if both partners are committed to the process.
Marital recovery
Recovering from an affair is a difficult and ongoing process. But it's possible to survive an affair. Marriage counseling can help you put the affair into perspective, explore underlying marital problems, learn how to rebuild and strengthen your relationship, and avoid divorce — if that's the mutual goal.
Understanding why an affair happened is crucial to recovering your marriage. Affairs can happen in happy relationships as well as troubled ones. The reasons vary:
* The involved partner not getting enough from the marriage relationship or, conversely, not contributing enough to it
* Low self-esteem
* An addiction to sex, love or romance
* Fear of intimacy
* Immaturity
* A life transition, such as the birth of a child or an empty nest
* Acting on impulse while under the influence of alcohol or other drugs
* Retaliation
* A means of ending an unhappy marriage
For more, visit the Mayo Clinic's Web site.
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