How to Help Your Spouse Heal from Your Affair

A Compact Manual for the Unfaithful

By: Linda J. MacDonald

Narrated by: Tamara Marston

Once an affair comes to light, many unfaithful persons "wake up" and want to save their marriages. Yet they usually make terrible mistakes in their bungled attempts to win back their partners' trust. Linda J. MacDonald, an infidelity specialist for 23 years, has identified behaviors and attitudes that determine unfaithful persons' success or failure to mend their marriages after the wrecking ball of an affair. How to Help Your Spouse Heal from Your Affair offers practical advice for those who've strayed and want a second chance.

It would take weeks of therapy to learn what Successful Rebuilders know:

• How to avoid the potholes that doom marriages after affairs
• Critical guidelines for the first hours after discovery
• Fifteen essential steps for repair after betrayal
• Skills to cope with your partner's obsessions and "triggers"
• Ways to undo the damage from your lies
• The keys to avoid prolonging your spouse's agony (and yours)
• The difference between helpful and harmful apologies
• How to rebuild your broken life, relationships, and integrity

Download the accompanying reference guide.©2010 Linda J. MacDonald (P)2013 Podium Publishing

Critic reviews

"I regularly provide copies of Linda's book to my clients who are facing this challenge. Unanimously they report, 'That [book] was very helpful.'" (Earl D. Wilson, PhD., author Steering Clear, and Restoring the Fallen)

"This is the most succinct collection of wisdom for helping the unfaithful that I have seen for couples trying to pick up the pieces of their lives after affairs." (Lance Brown, M.A., Minister of Care, Chapel Hill Presbyterian)

Every unfaithful needs to read this

very short and to the point. Very helpful short reasonable requests to help your betrayed heal. Excellent book overall and very recommended for anyone trying to repair and move on.

Very helpful

My boyfriend and I sat down together and listened to this book, pausing occasionally to discuss our feelings on topics. It helped us express our issues and better understand how the other was feeling. Highly recommend this book for a quick alternative to counseling - though, I totally support counseling.

great insight

I hope by applying this new knowledge to my marriage I can help rebuild what has been broken!

Quick, easy guide for handling muddy waters

I really enjoyed this book. It gave insights to the other side of the healing process for my husband. I wish I would have read it before the affair coming to light because I made some of the mistakes she mentions NOT doing. Some great tips and reminders of things not to do and to do in the Rollercoaster of hopeful reconciliation to any marriage struggling with infidelity.

Quick Overview

This book is a good start to getting to know what has happened in your relationship.