Yes, a straight marriage can survive a same-sex affair. It is a betrayal with an added layer of complexity, not an automatic end to the relationship, and couples do heal from it through structured, expert-guided work. When a woman discovers her husband’s affair was with a man, or a man discovers his wife had an […]

You did the hard thing – you ended the affair. You said you were sorry, probably more than once and you wrote the letter or had the hardest conversation of your life. All that time you meant every word. All that time you waited for your partner to trust you after the affair. Months later, […]

You’ve tried so much already. Maybe you planned a big trip, hoping a new place would help you reconnect. Maybe you wrote a long, heartfelt apology and promised it would never happen again. Perhaps you booked a weekend retreat, sat through months of couples therapy, or spent thousands of dollars hoping that something, anything, would […]

Finding out about your husband’s affair was devastating. Learning that he had the affair with another man added a whole new layer of pain. You are asking questions you never expected to be asking. Is he gay? Has he always been? Was any of our marriage real? How could I have missed this? not knowing […]

After a same-sex affair in a straight marriage, this question often surfaces quickly. First, you are trying to make sense of what happened. Then you start wondering whether your partner’s attraction to more than one gender means they can ever truly be faithful to you. Certainly, the fear is real, and the confusion is real. […]