Adultery & Divorce

Okay, ponder this. It’s complicated. Here’s something that I hear every so often from divorced women. “ My ex is cheating on his girlfriend with me. Yes, I’m cheating with my ex husband. He has a girlfriend, but still sleeps with me. I miss him. I miss the sex. He misses me. Maybe, we

For as long as the concept of the institution of marriage has been around, so has the question of whether humans are wired for monogamy. Some spouses may try to bridge this disconnect by asking the other for an open marriage instead of divorce. They may reason that they want the security that marriage

I was married for 30 years when my ex-husband wrote his own hall pass. I didn’t know about it. I didn’t give him permission. If he had asked me for one, I would have said, “Are you crazy? Of course you can’t have a hall pass!” The hall passes he took over the next

A man who cheats on his wife is bad enough. When your husband cheats and blames you for his cheating, he is not only unfaithful, but dishonorable as well. Really?! Come on guys, if you’re cheating, man up! Take responsibility for your own actions!  Seriously, why do cheaters blame their spouse? Did you force

Infidelity can be one of the most painful experiences you can imagine in a marriage, it is a violation of your vows that you took in front of family and friends. It can be one of the most challenging and damaging emotional events in life, the pain that is created from not just the

Let’s face it, it today’s work culture, there is a lot of opportunity for your husband to have female coworker friends. In fact, it’s almost impossible not to have opposite sex coworker friendships if you are in the workforce at all. Most office friendships remain platonic. In fact, there can be even close friendships

I think almost all married people have friends of the opposite gender while married.  In today’s world, it would be almost impossible not to have opposite-sex friends. But some of us reading this blog are getting divorced or are already divorced because our husband had a friendship when we were married that became an

Trying to get revenge on a cheating husband almost always hurts us more than it hurts him. All that obsessing and planning revenge takes away precious time and energy from what we really should be focused on…ourselves and where WE go from here. It took me longer than it should have to figure that

When I discovered my then husband’s first affair, we had been married 10 years. I was shocked! After the rage, sadness and despair settled down a bit, I wondered, “Can our marriage survive infidelity?” “Can I ever really get over this awful sense of betrayal? Can I ever trust him after his affair and