What Infidelity Does To A Marriage May Not Be What You Think
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- March 28, 2017

It isn’t quite as cut and dried as you might think.
If you’re like most people, you got married with a certainty of two things:
1. You will be one of the lucky ones who made it to “happily ever after”
2. If your new spouse ever cheats on you, your marriage will be O.V.E.R.
Being certain of two ideas that seem completely opposed to each other seems a bit strange. But that’s the truth of how most of us enter marriage – idealistic and protective.
These ideas reflect the society we live in. We’re taught from an early age to believe in fairy tales filled with Princes and Princesses that fall in love and live “happily ever after.” Yet we’re also taught that not everyone is to be trusted. So if someone betrays you in any way, the relationship with must end immediately.
Now that you’ve discovered your spouse has cheated, these two certainties aren’t quite as clear cut as you thought they were when you married. That’s at least in part because the idea of something is WAY different from the reality of it.
Maybe divorceisn’t the only answer after all. But that doesn’t mean your marriage can simply…
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