How to Salvage a Relationship After Cheating

How to Salvage a Relationship After Cheating

Relationship After Cheating - How To Know What You Are In For

Trying to rebuild a relationship after cheating is a very complex, difficult, and time consuming thing to do. And in many cases, it just won't work. It's very common that the partner who has been cheated on just can't move past all the hurt and pain and the relationship will be over.

If both parties are committed to try to make the relationship work after an infidelity than they both need to understand the long and difficult road ahead of them. The path will be different for the partner who cheated than for the partner who was cheated on, though there are some things that both partners will feel, such as pain.

If you are the one who has cheated, and you want to stay in the relationship the first thing you need to do is be very honest with yourself. Make sure that you really want to stay and you aren't just reacting out of guilt. A common mistake people will make after they've cheated on their partner, is to let guilt guide their actions and stay in the relationship to 'make it up' to their partner.

That is one of the worst things you can do. Why? Because unless you are truly in love with your partner and committed to making your relationship work, it's likely that whatever factors led you to cheat in the first place will very likely lead you to cheat again. Than all you've done is hurt your partner a second time.

If you've honestly thought about the reasons you want to stay in the relationship and you realize that you made a mistake when you cheated, and that you still love your partner and can be faithful from this point on, you will still have a very hard road ahead. The first thing you have to do is make a sincere apology for the pain you caused. And don't think you'll only have to make one apology, you'll need to make a lot more than that over the healing period.

You also have to understand that even if your partner says they want to work on the relationship, it may be impossible for them to ever totally trust you again. Don't think that just because your partner forgave you that they are ever really going to trust you again. And even though they said they forgive you, they may still throw your infidelity back in your face. While you might not think that is fair, and it's not, they may just have so much hurt that it will never go away completely and sometimes it just bubbles over.

Trying to salvage a relationship after cheating isn't going to be easy. It will take time, love, patience, and the full commitment of both parties, and the sad truth is that even with all that it still may not work. If you've been unfaithful, just make sure that you are sure that you are willing to deal with all the ramifications of your actions before you ask your partner to stay with you and work it out.