Key points

Many common reactions to infidelity involve poor choices.

These poor choices can make a bad situation much worse.

Sharing details with inappropriate others can hinder reconciliation.

However you define it, everyone knows that infidelity is extremely common. And everyone knows that it is often highly disruptive, shocking, destabilizing, and hurtful.

There’s no one right way to navigate infidelity, whether your own or your partner’s. But there are some wrong ways. After 44 years as a marriage counselor, I’ve seen thousands of people make the same set of mistakes after infidelity has been revealed.

Whether someone is caught or they confess, whether it’s a brief fling, a sex worker, or a love affair, both the Betrayed and the Betrayer are vulnerable to these common mistake

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