Deconstructing Infidelity: Causes & Myths

The causes of affairs illuminate the path of recovery and prevention.Affairs don’t happen in a vacuum. The decision to cheat is not a simple impulse. Most of the time, the decision represents the cumulative effects of many factors that have been either hidden or ignored. Our lack of knowledge about the causes of affairs is the leading cause of our failure to recover from them. This book offers the reader an in-depth understating of the individual, relationship, and environmental causes of infidelity.The information you will learn in this book is the synthesis of my extensive clinical and research efforts in the field of affair recovery. The autopsies of the hundreds of infidelity cases I have worked with allow me to provide the reader with a practical and concrete understanding of why people cheat. This knowledge will help couples and their counselors be more successful in choosing the appropriate path of recovery and the steps needed to achieve the desired outcome.Dr. Talal H. Alsaleem is recognized as the father of modern infidelity counseling. He is the author of the acclaimed book, Infidelity: The Best Worst Thing that Could Happen to Your Marriage, and the founder of The Infidelity Counseling Center. His research interests and clinical work are focused on identifying the causes of infidelity and providing the best treatment for recovery from its impact. He developed Systematic Affair Recovery Therapy (SART)™, a method of infidelity counseling that has helped hundreds of couples navigate the challenges of the healing journey from affairs. Learn more at TalalAlsaleem.com. Read more