The reason that so many affairs are conducted in secret is because the cheater seeks to retain their lifestyle, financial concerns and primary relationship/family, while engaging in an affair. This segregation of the affair relationship from the primary relationship is a manipulation of the faithful partner’s understanding of reality. In …
This article by Robert Weiss explores infidelity and characterizes it as trauma. Dr David J. Ley’s article, Abusing the Term Trauma takes the counter-argument that the term trauma is inappropriately used by clinicians (and the lay person) in relation to infidelity. Mr Weiss makes reference to the emotional fallout and …
Gaslighting and Denial I was browsing some articles from my RSS feed and happened across an article that listed some excuses that cheaters have given their partners when discovered in an affair. I selected some of the more eye-rollingly terrible ones to duplicate here. Infidelity & Affair Excuses My friend …
Gaslighting — The Fine Art of Making You Believe You’re Crazy by Tracy Schorn (edited) The late comedian Richard Pryor had a joke that went… His wife walks in on him having sex with another woman. Pryor tells his freaked out wife, hey, she didn’t see anything! ”Who are you …
