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I think your an amazing man and yiu have tremendous courage not to walk away for her.There are going to be some dark times ahead as yiu both try to walk throughout this.You wife needs to realise the extensive damage her sin has caused and how deeply wounded you have been.
it will take time to be able to trust her again
it will take time to be intimate with her again
it will take time to endure the agony of her betraying your trust
it will take time for god to heal yiou emotionally
it will take time for moments of anger,blame ect to eventually calm down
it will take time for her to get over the shame and regret of what she had done
it will take time for you both to get through the emotional,relational and spiritual damage caused by all this
when you forgive someone it doesn't stop the pain and sorrow.Healing is want s needed by god and it is a day by day process
also there had to be a reason why she had the affair..
it will take time to be able to trust her again
it will take time to be intimate with her again
it will take time to endure the agony of her betraying your trust
it will take time for god to heal yiou emotionally
it will take time for moments of anger,blame ect to eventually calm down
it will take time for her to get over the shame and regret of what she had done
it will take time for you both to get through the emotional,relational and spiritual damage caused by all this
when you forgive someone it doesn't stop the pain and sorrow.Healing is want s needed by god and it is a day by day process
also there had to be a reason why she had the affair..
hi me again (I hadn't finished)..
at some point you will both need to revisit the state of the marriage around the time she had the affair and it could be very painful off you both to do this and maybe having a third party manage this discussion would help.
sometimes a woman can end up having an affair for a variety of reason(see below)
1-feeling bored/unforfilled/neglected(and someone else makes then feel attractive/desirable/alive/forfilled ..ect
2- feeling sexually aroused by someone else and then sexual tension develops between them and the other person
3-being manipulated by someone else/or manipulating someone themselves
4- spiritual attack by the powers of darkness direct (they can distort a persons perspective on the marriage ect
this isn't to say that you yourself could be the reason it happened..not at all..yet if there was an underlining issue somewhere going on then it may need addressing and those areas get strengthened by god and any other weak spots within the marriage structure be protected by god.
may god be with yiu both on this painful road..but with god in the center..may he make your marriage be even better that it was before!!