DEFENSIVENESS: WHAT ARE THE UNFAITHFUL REALLY DEFENDING WHEN THEY GET DEFENSIVE?
Why do unfaithful partners become so defensive - even when they genuinely want to repair the damage they've caused?
After infidelity or betrayal, the unfaithful partner's defensiveness can show up in countless ways: explaining, minimizing, blaming, shutting down, arguing, withdrawing, intellectualizing, collapsing into shame—or desperately trying to convince your betrayed partner that you've changed.
But underneath all of those behaviors is a much more important question:
What are you actually defending?
In this episode of Ask The Unfaithful, James and Sam go beneath the surface of…
The skinny
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