After working with countless couples impacted by affairs, I’d like to clear up a common misunderstanding. The notion that it’s okay to go outside of your marriage to get your emotional and sexual needs met because they’re not getting met in the marriage…is a crazy notion. Put another way, there is no excuse, justification, or […]
EMOTIONAL AFFAIRS: “We’re just friends” is a dangerous line in relationships
The concept of the emotional affair seems to be getting more and more attention of late. I was just reading an article at USAToday.com by Karen S. Peterson (You may be interested reading it yourself at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-01-08-workplace-usat_x.htm) about this very phenomenon. Emotional affairs have been prevalent in several of the couples I’ve worked with over […]
THE UNDERBELLY OF AFFAIRS AND JEALOUSY: Can anyone relate to Astronaut Lisa Nowak’s feelings?
The closing line of act III of William Congreve’s The Mourning Bride is: Heav’n has no rage like love to hatred turn’d Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d. The more familiar quote derived from this is, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”. I would change this to, “Hell hath no fury […]