If you truly want your marriage to survive infidelity then you must be ready to forgive and learn to trust your spouse again.  Surviving infidelity doesn’t mean learning to live and exist in a loveless marriage.  You have to be prepared to move on, you will never forget what has happened but you certainly can forgive the past and look forward to a better more fulfilling marriage.
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No two marriages are alike, so each one will be different in how they chose to move forward.  Here are some things you can do that will push you forward in your marriage.
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The process may seem to be moving ever so slowly or maybe not at all but just know that as long as your moving in a forward direction from where you are today then your doing just fine. There is no time line as long as you are moving forward and not backward. Just make sure you give yourself plenty of time to process all your emotions before you forgive. If you forgive to quickly, you’ll find that it’s not real genuine forgiveness.
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What exactly is forgiveness and can you really forgive someone for such a devastating betrayal? Wikipedia says this about forgiveness: Forgiveness is the mental, and/or spiritual process of ceasing to feel resentment, indignation or anger against another person for a perceived offense, difference or mistake, or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution. So, what does it mean to actually forgive someone?
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Forgiveness doesn’t mean that we won’t ever think about the infidelity again. But it does mean that we make the conscious effort to not to think about it in ways that are destructive to us anymore. So, these thoughts will most likely come back to haunt you and that is only natural but, you have you have to be in control, don’t like your thoughts be in control of you. Forgiveness is choosing not to dwell on these negative thoughts in a way that can become destructive to you and your relationship.
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