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  • How to Help Your Spouse Heal from Your Affair

  • A Compact Manual for the Unfaithful
  • By: Linda J. MacDonald
  • Narrated by: Tamara Marston
  • Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,015 ratings)

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How to Help Your Spouse Heal from Your Affair

By: Linda J. MacDonald
Narrated by: Tamara Marston
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Publisher's summary

Once an affair comes to light, many unfaithful persons "wake up" and want to save their marriages. Yet they usually make terrible mistakes in their bungled attempts to win back their partners' trust. Linda J. MacDonald, an infidelity specialist for 23 years, has identified behaviors and attitudes that determine unfaithful persons' success or failure to mend their marriages after the wrecking ball of an affair. How to Help Your Spouse Heal from Your Affair offers practical advice for those who've strayed and want a second chance.

It would take weeks of therapy to learn what Successful Rebuilders know:

  • How to avoid the potholes that doom marriages after affairs
  • Critical guidelines for the first hours after discovery
  • Fifteen essential steps for repair after betrayal
  • Skills to cope with your partner's obsessions and "triggers"
  • Ways to undo the damage from your lies
  • The keys to avoid prolonging your spouse's agony (and yours)
  • The difference between helpful and harmful apologies
  • How to rebuild your broken life, relationships, and integrity
©2010 Linda J. MacDonald (P)2013 Podium Publishing
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Critic reviews

"I regularly provide copies of Linda's book to my clients who are facing this challenge. Unanimously they report, 'That [book] was very helpful.'" (Earl D. Wilson, PhD., author Steering Clear, and Restoring the Fallen)
"This is the most succinct collection of wisdom for helping the unfaithful that I have seen for couples trying to pick up the pieces of their lives after affairs." (Lance Brown, M.A., Minister of Care, Chapel Hill Presbyterian)

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The topic speaks for itself

I read this book as the hurt spouse to see if these are things I'd like to hear from my spouse and it was very good advice. I needed to know if I had unreasonable expectations from him. I recommend this for anyone dealing with this topic to get it sooner than later. Maybe even before the bomb drops to avoid as much damage as possible from the get go. If you did wrong this is a good start to try and pick up the broken pieces.

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Become a Rebuilder

Excellent Book ! Highly Recommendable if you are looking to mend your mistakes plus resolve your own issues in a marriage!

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Thank you! I needed to read this.

Excellent work in illustrating the devastating results of betrayal, and how it affects the betrayed spouse. It helped me get into my wife's shoes in how she is feeling about what I have done. I will be listening to this again and again. Thank you so much.

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Very helpful!!

Great advice, great narrator. Would recommend for anyone who is currently in a relationship outside their marriage. Wish I had

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An ESSENTIAL read for any infidelity situation

This book holds nearly all the keys to healing after infidelity, beginning to restore the marriage, rebuilding joy, intimacy, trust, and security. If you combine this book with committing to quality professional help for your marriage, you will most likely be on the path to truly saving your marriage.

I am a therapist and affair recovery specialist. I will be using this book in my practice.

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Great practical application

Very straight and to the point. I believe if the unfaithful follow these guidelines and instructions, both sides can heal.

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Good info

The author teaches you a ton of good ideas in a very short period of time. Well worth the read if you care about your partner.

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Every unfaithful needs to read this

very short and to the point. Very helpful short reasonable requests to help your betrayed heal. Excellent book overall and very recommended for anyone trying to repair and move on.

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Very helpful

My boyfriend and I sat down together and listened to this book, pausing occasionally to discuss our feelings on topics. It helped us express our issues and better understand how the other was feeling. Highly recommend this book for a quick alternative to counseling - though, I totally support counseling.

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great insight

I hope by applying this new knowledge to my marriage I can help rebuild what has been broken!

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