Surviving Infidelity - Surviving infidelity means you have to strengthen your marriage and make it stronger than it was before, or else risk a repeat of infidelity.

Surviving infidelity is a decisive challenge for your marriage. With hard work, the affair can become an event in your marital past, and the basis of a stronger marriage.

Together, you and your spouse can work through the hurts and get back to the way things were before the affair. However, is that what you really want to do?

Think about it. The pre-infidelity marriage was in bad enough condition that the infidelity was possible in the first place. Counselors call this the "danger zone".

If you just go back to the way things were before, the affair might be repeated!

Merely putting the past behind you does nothing to prevent future affairs.

In order to prevent repeat offenses, you have to set your sights higher than merely putting the affair behind you. You need to ensure that the marriage is better than it was before. You need to take your marriage out of the danger zone.

Post-affair marriages have to be like the Bionic Man(TM) - they have to be "better", and they have to be "stronger". Otherwise, according to the experts, the odds of a second affair are very high. Surviving infidelity is more than just getting past an ugly episode, but actively preparing for a brighter future.