Dallas Adult Entertainment: All apologies
According to a 2008 telephone poll of 1,025 adults by USA Today/Gallup, one in three Americans would forgive their spouse for infidelity, while nearly two-thirds say they would divorce their spouse.
“The obvious deal-breaker should be that you can’t forgive something until it has stopped. And then whatever the issues are have to be treated, so it doesn’t happen again,’’ says Terry Real, a family therapist and founder of the Relational Life Institute in Arlington.
What’s forgivable and what’s not depends on the circumstances, says Real, who has written several books on marriage. At one end of the spectrum is the sex addict who has multiple partners, including unprotected sex with prostitutes and then has unprotected sex with his wife. On the other end, says Real, “is a guy who has a one-night stand on the road during a 35-year marriage 25 years ago’’ and the wife just found out.
See the full article from “Boston Globe”