A successful relationship always requires a feeling of stability, security, physical and emotional intimacy, trust and companionship. And when any of these is missing, either one or both the partners feel dissatisfied which might lead to infidelity. But sometimes a partner may have an affair to get an ego boost or for a new emotional or sexual relationship.
Some of the reasons a person may engage in infidelity are:
- Relationship dissatisfaction
- Low self-esteem
- Lack of emotional intimacy
- To end the primary relationship
- Sex addiction
A lot of couples come for couple’s therapy or marriage counselling to know whether to continue their relationship even after an affair or not. A therapist will serve as a support listener as each partner express his/her feelings and emotions and help the couple identify their needs and their future goal for the relationship. If they wish to continue their relationship, the therapist will help them determine their level of commitment and help them to gain back their trust between each other and guide them through the process of healing.
Sometimes the couples feel counselling to be a safe environment where they can ask and answer question about the affair and the reason behind it, they work through the difficult feelings such as pain, jealousy, anger. They try to identify the underlying cause of which lead to the unfaithfulness. Counselling also helps them to be more aware to prevent it from repeating, it helps them to determine the unhealthy patterns of relationship which includes co-dependency, emotional abuse.
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