I Didn’t Go Looking for an Affair

“If you don’t receive love from the ones that are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.” Robert Goolrick   “I never intended for this to happen.” “I never saw this coming.” “I didn’t go looking for an affair.” “We were just talking as friends.”...

When We Betray Ourselves

“Discomfort is a wise teacher.” Carolyn Myss   My client, who I’ll refer to here as Stella, had been married for 18 years when she found out that her husband had been involved in an online emotional affair with an ex-girlfriend for at least three years. Sounds...

Your Hurt. Your Pain. Your Anger.

“When her pain is fresh and new, let her have it. Don’t try to take it away. Grief and pain…are not things we should try to snatch from each other. They’re sacred.” Glennon Doyle Melton   It was as close to love at first sight as you could probably get. He was a...

It’s Not (Only) About the Affair

“Cancer is that awful word we all fear when we go to the doctor…, but in that brief dark moment we hear it the world we live in and the people we share it with begin to illuminate things we did not even pay attention to.” BD Phillips   I wrote an article for an...