Sentences with phrase «injured partner»

I have so many injured partners who sit on my couch and tell me similar stories.

Attachment injuries are a specific type of betrayal in romantic relationships that traumatize and fundamentally change basic relationship assumptions for injured partners.

When injured partners see that this pain has been recognized by the injuring spouse, he or she can then begin the process of letting it go.

Injured partners feel like their realities are violated and partners who have somehow violated their agreement don't feel like villains.

When injured partners see that this pain has been recognized by the injuring spouse, he or she can then begin the -LSB-...]

The counselors at Counseling & Recovery Partners have the combined experience and knowledge to help couples navigate the healing process: from helping injured partners heal from the betrayal experienced; to working with the person who committed the infidelity make amends; and providing couples counseling to explore the meaning of the infidelity and the future of their relationship.

Injured partners understandably question how they will ever be able to trust the other person again.

Many times, injured partners feel they are going crazy after discovering their spousehad an affair.

They result in humiliation, hurt and loss for the injured partner.

The firm has continued to grow and prosper since those difficult days, and their injured partner has recovered to the point where he is now a paraplegic who actively litigates from his wheelchair.

If you are the injured partner and need individual or group support, I can provide you with appropriate referrals as well.

Often the injured partner believes that he / she could have prevented the betrayal if they had been smarter, more alert or less vulnerable.

Letting go of past injuries requires the injured partner to forgive and turn toward rather than continue the pattern of turning away.

Now, the injured partner can begin his or her work of forgiving and taking more risk to trust the injuring partner with his or her heart.

The injuring partner may have defensively withdrawn into a cycle of shame and self - blame so part of my goal is to help that partner stay present.

The emotional wall that was built to keep the injured partner safe, will need to be pulled down.

The injuring partner may say, «Now I am beginning to understand why you became so angry and withdrew from me.

In a couples counseling session for marriage forgiveness, I ask the injuring partner to stay emotionally present and acknowledge the wounded partner's pain.

He explains betrayal as a logical outcome of a pattern in which partners fail to communicate their discontent, one partner becomes untrustworthy and makes negative comparisons between the partner and some other person or situation, and the injured partner seeks solace elsewhere.

Understandably varying degrees of ambivalence will emerge and recede based on, among other things, the quality of the marital relationship before the infidelity, the injured partner's ability to process difficult pieces of new information, and the intensity of emotional connection between the unfaithful partner and the affair partner.

Allowing the injured partner to set the pace of the recovery process is crucial to its success.

The breach of trust can devastate the injured partner.

When they attack out of hurt, an injured partner wants to believe there is remorse.

An injured partner can feel even more hurt that the other person is not responding in ways that provide healing.

Being defensive also destroys the injured partner's safety.

The injured partner may ask for access and information that may feel intrusive.

This may mean giving up privacy for the comfort of the injured partner.

In the depth of the pain, injured partners are looking for answers to questions they may not have the words to ask.

As a stand - alone program for anyone attempting to make sense of what might be happening to them after an affair has been disclosed, this book would be helpful to both the «participating partner» and «injured partner.»

Being completely open and honest (even when it is painful) is necessary to allow the injured partner to start to trust.

The injured partner feels heard, understood and supported.

Utilize a four - session assessment model for a comprehensive psychobiosocial assessment of the injured partner, involved partner and the relationship to make better treatment decision.

This can be extremely frustrating for the injured partner, and difficult to understand, however I suggest more important things to focus on while getting to the «why?»

It can be incredibly difficult for an injured partner to hear that they somehow played a role in the infidelity.

Secrecy plays a huge role in an affair and is what the injured partner typically has the most difficulty dealing with and so if the participating partner is willing to be honest about their feelings and their commitment to move forward, this will help greatly in creating a new normal and in rebuilding trust.

Trust is one of the most difficult things to rebuild after infidelity, but when the injured partner creates a space of punishment at every corner, things can truly backfire and this often sends the straying partner back into the arms of the other.

Triggers can be so many things that just remind an injured partner of the event and of the pain they've felt since.

Triggers are powerful and have the ability to bring an injured partner to their knees, causing them to revert back to square one, and cause all the pain of discovering the affair to come rushing back to them.

But in my opinion, and in the work that I do with couples I've found that there isn't always one definitive answer that's really good enough for the injured partner, and it typically takes a great amount of time for the participating partner to truly understand why they decided to look stray.

This is usually one of the main questions asked by the injured partner, however it is typically something that the participating partner has the most difficulty answering.

Creating a safe space for the injured partner to share their pain without inflicting further damage on the relationship

Marriage Forgiveness In a couples counseling session for marriage forgiveness, I ask the injuring partner to stay emotionally present and acknowledge the wounded partner's pain.

During this stage, when a couple should be experiencing a renewed closeness together, the injury often flares up even more, and can be experienced by the injured partner similar to a traumatic flashback.

An injured partner's feelings of abandonment or betrayal are the key markers of an injury, not whether an outside person determines whether the actual event warrants the definition of an injury.

Injured partners often exhibit symptoms similar to classic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), including re-experiencing the injury repeatedly, numbing out whenever reminded of the injury, and becoming hyper - vigilant when associating with the injury.

The reaction of the other partner is often intense anger or a strong withdrawal as well, reinforcing the pain of the injured partner.

If one partner withdraws from his or her partner at a key moment of need, and in the aftermath is unwilling to talk about the incident and address the injured partner's hurt or pain related to the event, the injury can easily overwhelm new, positive experiences together.