“How can I even think about dating anyone?” That’s probably how you felt back when the wounds of infidelity were painfully fresh. But now that you’re ready, this section can help you face dating with confidence, assurance and even joy. Sometimes you may think you won't ever date after divorce or during your separation but it's a step that essential for you to move forward with your life. You don't need to rush into anything and there are things you certainly want to be aware about dating after divorce but we are here to help you.
Creating a healthy, passionate marriage is what I do best.
Anne Bercht, the director of the Beyond Affairs Network, is co-founder, along with her husband Brian, of www.passionatelife.ca, a website dedicated to creating a healthy, passionate marriage. The Berchts are lecturers and authors of “My Husband’s Affair Became the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me.”
The Relationship Institute, www.relationship-institute.com, serves the online community and communities in southeastern Michigan, providing marriage, pre-marriage and couples counseling, relationship therapy, and couples counseling.
The deepest level of availability is what we call conscious emotional availability, where the capacity to be fully present and mindful of your own emotional process, as well as your partner's, is present most of the time.
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It is amazing to me that there isn't one single story in this category. It seems there are hundreds of posts, stories, books, etc. about how to mend a broken relationship, forgive, forget, but none that actually attempt to share that there is life on the 'other side' even if you are like my family and were 'left behind' for another woman. After 20+ years of marriage, my stepfather left my mother for a woman the same age as me. We all missed the signs. We were devistated especially because we felt like his decisions were final and out of our control. My mother, in an incredible show of resillience found the courage to return alone to her home state. There, without bitterness or regret.....she tried things she had always wanted to do, but never dared. She traveled, started a successful RE career with what little savings she had left, and is now the woman she always felt that she could be. A shining example for her three daughters. There is life on the other side. Even though we don't speak, we all forgave him. Forgiveness if you choose it doesn't mean the other person was right, it just means you can be free. Even if you were left behind.