Divorce is painful and extremely difficult to go through. You will experience profound grief even if you know that there is no other option than to get out of a dysfunctional marriage. The grief process has the same stages no matter what the loss is. The intensity increases when the severity of the loss increases. The more you understand the grief process, the easier it will be for you to work through it. This podcast describes the grief process that you will go through during your divorce. Please listen to it to increase your awareness and understanding. #griefandhealing #divorcehealing #dysfunctionalmarriage 

Stages of Grief for Divorce: https://www.changemyrelationship.com/the-grief-process-in-divorce/

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What are the signs indicating that your partner's affair is truly over? It isn't unusual for affairs to stop and start again when the betrayed partner finds out about the affair. Because you will be making important decisions, you need to know how to recognize the signs of a true ending compared to a false ending where your partner will return to the affair. Listen to this podcast to learn 7 signs indicating an affair is truly over. #SexualAddiction #RebuildingTrust  #DysfunctionalMarriage 

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If you have difficulty owning your power to take care of yourself with people and live your life according to your own convictions, you may need to learn how to stop victimizing yourself. There a number of things you may be doing that are unnecessarily making you a victim. You may have learned them in your family of origin or be doing them to survive a difficult relationship. The truth is that you don't have to keep doing them. Watch this video to identify what you are doing to victimize yourself and how you can stop doing it.

#selflove #selfcare #selfimprovement 

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Understanding how cognitive dissonance affects you will empower you to make decisions that honor who you are. This is especially important in dysfunctional relationships where you are pressured to give up so much of who you are to stay in the relationship and pacify people who ask you to violate your own standards.

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Try grey rocking when you don't want to engage with narcissists, manipulators, and other dysfunctional people. It is an effective way to keep you from getting drawn into the drama by attempting to explain or defend your truth. Watch this video to find out what grey rocking is and how to use it.

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Does "Love Covers a Multitude of Sins" equal tolerance? Does it mean you close your eyes and ignore the harmful things people do to you? Do you have to continue to forgive and move on? Or does it mean something else entirely? You need to know the answers to these questions if that Bible verse directs any of your responses to unhealthy people. Watch this video to find out what it really means.

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Forgiveness is a topic that gets brought up over and over again in the space of healing from betrayal.

Jonathan Daugherty of Be Broken Ministries interviews Karla Downing on Pure Sex Radio to discuss the 8 Steps of Forgiveness. In the episode, Karla gives a robust definition of forgiveness and then walks us through eight practical steps that are essential to the process of forgiveness.

More Resources:

• The 8-Step Forgiveness Process (PDF)

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• Betrayal Healing Phases

Should you have blind trust in your relationships? Dysfunctional people including people who have lied to you, betrayed you, and manipulated you often demand it without proving to you that they are trustworthy. Do you know how to respond to them without doubting yourself? And is there a process of rebuilding trust that you can expect before offering it again? Blind trust isn't wise or healthy. Christians can have boundaries around trust.

#blindtrust #christianboundaries #betrayal #rebuildingtrust 

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If you have been in dysfunctional relationships, you may have trouble recognizing when a relationship is unhealthy. It is important to know how to recognize dysfunction and unhealthy characteristics but it is also important to know what to look for in a healthy relationship because if those things are not there, then you know it isn't good and you can let it go even if you are confused about the bad.

Worksheet: https://www.changemyrelationship.com/christian-relationship-devotional-green-flags/

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Do you know how to recognize stinking thinking in a moody person or yourself? There are distinct signs that a person is slipping into a dark mood where things like resentment and self-pity are present. There is even a prediction of an addict's relapse. 

#stinkingthinking #relapse 

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