The 10 Biggest Pain Points Betrayed Partners Face After Infidelity

The 10 Biggest Pain Points Betrayed Partners Face After Infidelity

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(And Why You’re Not Crazy for Feeling This Way)

If you’ve been betrayed by the person you trusted most, let’s start here:

You are not crazy.
You are not weak.
And you are not “overreacting.”

What you’re experiencing are real trauma responses—and there is a path forward that doesn’t waste your time, energy, or emotional resources.

Below are the 10 most common pain points betrayed partners face after infidelity, drawn from years of working directly with couples navigating broken trust. These aren’t listed in any particular order, but if you recognize yourself in several of them, you’re not alone.

How Trauma Works

Our son Luke was born with a condition that required two surgeries on his feet, leg casts, and special immobilizing shoes all before he was four years old.

When we went for his second surgery we didn’t realize that we would have to choose whether they would give him calming medication or for us to stay with him as they put him to sleep.

So we chose the calming medicine thinking that would be better for him.

As they wheeled him back into the surgical suite Brad and I tried so hard to keep it together. It was the hardest thing to see our little 2 year old leaving us for such a big thing.

There’s always this little place in your mind that wonders if he’ll wake up from anesthesia….