Therapy

Andrew Bicknell researches and writes about a variety of subjects, including those dealing with relationships and infidelity.

What Really Creates Happiness?

Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is the best-selling author and co-author of eight books, including "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You? and "Healing Your Aloneness." She is the co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding healing process.

Paradoxically, choosing happiness as a primary goal in life often leads to unhappiness. Happiness is actually a consequence of a different life purpose. In this article, discover what really creates happiness.

My wife and I have been together for 23 years and have 2 girls and 1 boy. I caught my wife cheating on me with another woman. She said that she has had this feeling before we were married and wanted to feel young again. I can’t get the pictures out of my mind. She say’s that she wants to stay, but I feel that it’s only because she doesn’t want the other woman's family to know. She wants to stay friends with the women and that it won’t happen again. I don’t believe her. There was too much feeling in what I saw them do. I have caught her talking with the woman on the phone and told her to get out. What should I do?

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