May 28, 2009

Getting Your Ex Back If You Cheated

Infidelity is the cause of many relationship break ups.  The reason is obvious.  When one partner cheats, the other will usually feel like "I can't trust you ever again."

This is a normal feeling after cheating occurs.  That's because trust is such an essential part of a close, true love.  When it gets broken, we usually feel very strongly that there is no way to get it back.  Even if there are a lot of things we do/did like about our mate, after cheating occurs we don't feel how we could ever be happy with them after a betrayal like that.  You can learn more about Get Your Ex Back In Hours after infidelity here.

TRUST, then, is a huge issue in break ups.  Before your partner can even consider taking you back, they have to feel they can somehow trust you not to cheat on them again.  Obviously, why take you back if it's just likely to be more of the same?  When there has been infidelity, one of the big things on your ex's mind is

I can't ever trust you again.

Clearly, if they split with you because of a problem issue like infidelity, they need to know In Advance of letting you ocme back that you won't hurt them that way again, you won't keep doing what you did.

The emotion of broken trust/betrayal is one of the toughest feelings for an ex lover to get over.  We all believe that trust takes a long time to build.  So when it's broken, we usually believe it is unfixable, correct?

It is crucial for you to understand the trust issue if you want to get back with your ex.  You must deal with their feelings of distance and betrayal and lack of trust or you can't expect to get back with your ex.  Even if you get "lucky" and they give you a second chance, without trust it probably won't last.  That's because the love and intimacy we all want to feel can't be felt when there is no trust.

How might you deal with your ex's lack of trust?  It's a complex answer, but one thing that often happens after cheating is we try to avoid the blame.  We try to say it wasn't our fault.  We say "I drank too much," or "You were mean to me!"  When a relationship buster like infidelity has happened, we will almost naturally try to avoid taking the blame. 

Give those excuses to your ex and shell think you're a weak idiot.  She may take you back, but it wont last, there will be real distance, because those excuses don't allow her to trust you.  What if you get drunk again?  What if she is cold to you a month from now?  What if a pretty skirt tempts you tomorrow when you're walking down the street? So one of the first powerful things you can do is accept blame.  Take full responsibility.  Don't offer weak or lame excuses.  You can learn a full system for resolving relationship conflict here.

Instead of weak excuses, you can say something like "I know I broke your trust in me, and I'm so sorry that I did this and made you feel so hurt…"

This is an adult way to begin to repair the damage to their trust.  Hearing responsibility being taken like that allows us to see that maybe they understand what they did wrong.  It helps lay the foundation for forgiveness.  Just like when you catch your kids screwing up, if they lie about it you just get more angry.  But if they apologize and own it, you can more easily begin to forgive.

There are many other steps that need to be followed before you can truly begin to repair the trust, but this is a very big initial step!  Go here for a free course on How To Have The Marriage You Want Help.

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