Infidelity Articles By Katie Lersch

by: Katie Lersch: I know a wife whose husband’s affair lasted for two months. The wife had found out about it from a mutual friend. It really bothered her that the husband hadn’t come clean on his own. However, once the wife confronted her husband, he immediately expressed his sorrow and remorse. In fact, the […]

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By: Katie Lersch: Unfortunately, many folks are struggling to deal with infidelity, cheating, and affairs. Many go into this process with the belief that infidelity always destroys the marriage. I often hear things like: “Well, I guess this means the end of my marriage. I can’t believe he would do this to us. I hope […]

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By: Katie Lersch: Most of the people who reach out to me are the cheated on. They’re trying to rebuild, heal, and restore their self-esteem.  Occasionally, though, I hear from the unfaithful spouse who desperately wants to make things right. They’re looking for guidance on how to confess their infidelity, convey their profound regret, and […]

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By: Katie Lersch: Having a husband who cheats is one of the things that almost all women fear. We all know couples who have had their marriages ruined by cheating. We all know wives who were never really the same after they were cheated on. This is many of our “worst case scenarios” — the […]

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by: Katie Lersch: I was recently asked about the plausibility of an excuse by a wife whose husband had told her that he’d had an affair as an “escape mechanism” for the stress that was in his life at the time.  He had recently lost his father, was worried about his job, had a health […]

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By: Katie Lersch: It’s not unusual for wives to feel pressured to offer forgiveness after their husband cheats or has an affair. And many of the wives struggle with this. Some really want to save their marriages. They want to move on. But, they are still very angry about the whole situation. Some feel rage […]

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By: Katie Lersch: When you first find out that your husband has cheated and had an affair, it can feel as if life as you know it is over because nothing can ever be the same again. Many wives in this situation assume that in a couple of months, they’ll be divorced and alone. That’s […]

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By: Katie Lersch: Because of my own experience with infidelity, cheating is a topic that I have researched and thought about for a long while. And I find that almost universally, the cheating spouse wants to shorten the healing process while the faithful spouse wants to lengthen it. In other words, the cheating spouse is […]

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By: Katie Lersch: If you’ve never dealt with a spouse’s infidelity, you might assume that you’ll deal with a week or two of massive shock and sadness until you eventually level out in a relatively short period of time. Even if you’re still struggling, you might think, you’ll still need to start to move on […]

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By: Katie Lersch: Because of my past history with infidelity and the upkeep of this blog, I can’t tell you how often I think and talk about why men actually cheat on their wives. And I believe that I have an accurate answer, but it may surprise some people.  See, most folks assume that when a […]

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