It's hard to imagine, but even if you never fully forgive your cheating spouse, your feelings of anger will likely soften over time. It would be tragic if you sent a destructive message now that you couldn't take back later.

When betrayal occurs in relationships that we depend on for our physical and psychological survival, we often just don't see it. It's not stupidity. It's human nature.

We need to stop excusing infidelity. Let's begin by putting the responsibility for cheating back where it belongs -- on cheaters.

Affairs are usually not the "disease" that infects marriages or love relationships, but a symptom of bigger issues that loom under the surface. For me, the key word here is "usually."

You can argue that people reconcile out of fear, or crappy financial consequences, or keeping it together for the kids. But I also think mixed up in there is compassion -- a great big heart that is trying very hard to love someone who has grievously hurt them.

The logistics of divorce are hellish. It's painful and draining. Understandably, you can get sidetracked from the important work of rebuilding a new life when you're still stumbling around in the ruins of the former one. But that's where the pay off is -- the new life.

By Marina Pearson for YourTango.com "I feel so guilty I had the affair. I don't even know why I did it. What was I thinking?" This is a very typ...

Not everyone reacts to infidelity the same way over time.

I don't fault betrayed people for wanting revenge. Revenge is primal. It is the quest for vigilante justice -- a desire to make that oppressive jerk choke on some of the humiliation for once.

Leaving a cheater is an intimidating process.

Dear remorseless cheaters: Apparently there is still some confusion out there that your extracurricular shenanigans are wrong.

Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani hosted a segment on HuffPost Live about how infidelity affects different relationships. Mandy Stadtmiller, Deputy Editor a...

During the HuffPost Live segment “Cheaters' Victims: Safeguarding Yourself Against Infidelity,” host Caroline Tehrani explored how cheating affect...

Even if two people are not engaged in a physical relationship, the emotional attachment can threaten the very foundation and fabric of the marriage.

There are a lot of women harboring secret regrets in their marriage.