Your Past Does Not Need To Define Your Future

Anne Bercht

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.

If you’re unhappy with the way things turned out in the past, be encouraged, you can learn from your mistakes and right the wrongs of the past, by correcting them in the future.

Getting Past an Extramarital Affair

In the case of an extramarital affair, we often look back and wish the past could be undone, but it can’t be undone. It happened and nothing will ever change that.

Then a sense of justice overcomes us and we want those who’ve wronged us to “pay the price” for what they’ve done. And if we’re the ones who’ve committed the wrong and are overwhelmed with a sense of remorse and regret, we even seek ways to punish ourselves as if that will somehow make us feel better – and we long for reconciliation with those we’ve wronged.

But the more one thinks about major wrongs like this, one realizes, there is no price, we or those in our lives can pay, that would be big enough to right the wrong.

The encouraging thing is today is a new day. There is a time to recognize we cannot change what is past, but the past does not need to determine the future.

If you’re unhappy with the way things turned out in the past, be encouraged, you can learn from your mistakes and right the wrongs of the past, by correcting them in the future. Who you were yesterday, is not who you are today or tomorrow. Who your spouse was yesterday does not mean that is who they will be in the future. People do have the ability to change, if they choose to. It’s all about choices.

How Do I Change My Spouse?

Daily, I receive emails containing this exact question, so I’ve decided to share the secret with you …

You Change Your Spouse by Changing Yourself!


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