Would you consider a man "weak" if he forgave his girlfriend/wife for sleeping with another guy?
26-30, F
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DrWatson · 70-79, M
I am more familiar with the roles reversed. I know of a few cases in which a wife discovered the husband was cheating.
None of the women, naturally enough, simply shrugged it off.
In one case, the marriage ended in divorce.
In two other cases, after a long period in which the husband went to counselling, the couple went to counselling, the husband participated in an ongoing recovery program for sex addiction, AND the wife saw changes in the husband's behavior in other areas of the marriage, especially regarding how he treated her and reacted to her concerns, the wife eventually could forgive, because she had confidence that the husband had changed and was consciously working a lifetime effort of improving himself spiritually and emotionally.
I would not consider such a wife to be weak. I would call her courageous and strong.
If you reverse the genders in the above, I would come to the same conclusion.
None of the women, naturally enough, simply shrugged it off.
In one case, the marriage ended in divorce.
In two other cases, after a long period in which the husband went to counselling, the couple went to counselling, the husband participated in an ongoing recovery program for sex addiction, AND the wife saw changes in the husband's behavior in other areas of the marriage, especially regarding how he treated her and reacted to her concerns, the wife eventually could forgive, because she had confidence that the husband had changed and was consciously working a lifetime effort of improving himself spiritually and emotionally.
I would not consider such a wife to be weak. I would call her courageous and strong.
If you reverse the genders in the above, I would come to the same conclusion.