Healing and Forgetting Cheating or Affair and Saving Your Relationship

You have found out your wife or husband has been cheating on you or has been having an affair. Immediate reaction after finding out about cheating is shock. You feel a mixture of burning anger, frustration, hopelessness, depression, anxiety and deep sadness when you realize you have lost something that you can never get back again: The full, innocent, pure trust towards your husband or wife. There is a biological basis for this emotional roller coaster you are now going through.

Your mind is reacting to this kind of crisis in your life in the same way as the mind of a person who is addicted to a drug and no longer has access to it. During the course of your relationship you have become "addicted" to the love of your husband or wife and cheating has now compromised that love. Due to this your mind is struggling to reorganize your view of your life.

As your brain is trying to adjust to new circumstances, you are experiencing similar withdrawal symptoms as a person who is addicted to drugs is experiencing when the access to drug is abruptly denied. When you find out about cheating, changes occur in the chemical balance between critical compounds in your brain which are related to regulation of feelings of satisfaction, happiness and mood. Among other substances, these compounds include serotonin, dopamine and endorphins. These compounds are known to be major players in the development of various mental disorders such as depression.

The best thing you can do in your situation is not to try to fight the negative feelings you are experiencing after finding out your husband or wife has been cheating on you. You are only causing yourself more pain if you are trying to block negative emotions related to cheating or an affair. Much better approach is to teach your mind to adjust to situation as fast as it can. This does not mean that you should simply accept the cheating and adjust to it. Cheating is always wrong and unacceptable. But the fact is that cheating has happened, there is nothing you can do to change it.

The best thing you can do is to actively integrate the event of cheating as part of your past, instead of trying to forget and deny it. Denial only works for a while. If you are not processing the event of cheating properly in your mind you end up being bitter, unhappy human being. If you are trying to continue your relationship after cheating took place and you have not been able to process properly the matters related to cheating, the memories will hunt you for years to come. This is influencing your behavior towards your spouse and your relationship will most likely become worse.

The mental pain you are experiencing is a result of adjustment process, which you are actively trying to fight. If you are actively trying to avoid thinking of something, as a result that something will never be truly forgotten.The plasticity of human brain is much greater than one would think. If your are solely thinking about cheating and affair, the networks in your brain related to these memories will become stronger and as a result memories related to affair and cheating are occupying your mind, making it hard to concentrate on other things in life. If you do not do anything to interrupt this vicious cycle, you might in the worst case end up being seriously depressed.

Due to the plasticity of the brain you can influence the way your brain works after you found out about an affair or cheating. In same fashion as it is possible to "train" the brain to get rid of different kind of phobias, you can teach your brain to let go of unpleasant thoughts and memories related to cheating or an affair. Understanding the reasons for your emotions helps you to control them better and to recover faster after finding out about an affair or cheating.

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