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Dealing with Infidelity

How you and your partner can deal with infidelity – both sexual and emotional, and ideas for moving on from it.

Loyalty and Lust
Looking at the implications that temptation has in our relationships, and how we can use these situations to review our loyalty to our partners.

Provided by Relationship Services, a leading provider of counselling and education services in New Zealand, helping people to build better relationships.

Coping with Affairs
Ways to approach the situation if you’re disclosing your own affair, or have discovered that your partner’s had an affair. Also discusses if an affair can be forgiven, what helps to mend a relationship, and the long-term effects an affair can have on a relationship.

Provided by Relate UK, a UK charity and the UK’s largest provider of relationship counselling and sex therapy.

Can a Marriage Survive a Cheating Spouse
Whether a marriage can survive infidelity, and some of the emotions that may need to be dealt with.

Provided by About.com, a website owned by The New York Times Company, providing practical advice and solutions for almost any problem.

Myths of Infidelity
A discussion of some of the myths that exist about infidelity.

Provided by Psychology Today, providing articles about emotional well-being, both from a clinical and an academic perspectives.

Forgive Me, Forgive Me Not
Dealing with having cheated on your partner, and the effect it has had on them.

Provided by Relationship Services, a leading provider of counselling and education services in New Zealand, helping people to build better relationships.

Emotional Infidelity – Fact or Fiction
What emotional infidelity is, symptoms of emotional infidelity, and how you can approach the situation with your partner.

Provided by Health24.com, a South African health information provider, and part of the Media24 (Naspers) Group.

Love But Don’t Touch
Looks at the rising incidence of emotional infidelity, particularly over the internet, and how these relationships can develop.

Provided by Psychology Today, providing articles about emotional well-being, both from a clinical and an academic perspectives.

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