
“Getting Past the Affair” deals with the immediate trauma of an affair, examines factors that made the relationship vulnerable to an affair and guides the partners in making decisions about the future. While I cannot speak from personal experience of an affair, I know enough about my own and others’ marriages to recognize this book’s merits. All three authors, psychology professors, have private practices in addition to their research and teaching. The process is based on the authors’ 50-year collective experience working with individuals and couples. You can benefit by doing the work called for in “Getting Past the Affair” alone or with your partner.


The book’s contents can help, whether you are the partner who did not have the affair or the one who did, and whether the affair came to light recently or sometime ago. That would include, at the time of the book’s writing, about 20 percent of men and 10 percent of women (sexual infidelity) to nearly 45 percent of men and 25 percent of women (both physical and emotional affairs).

Here is a book for anyone who has experienced a marital affair - infidelity, tryst, betrayal, outside involvement or whatever you want to call it.
