In the days before cell phones, my wife’s mother used her telephone as her form of social media. Her favorite form of social media was gossip. She loved finding out the latest gossip on everyone she knew. If there was anything juicy, she wanted to either hear it or tell it. One day, she discovered through her gossip connections, that her husband was seeing someone else.
She quickly sprang into action. With a few calls, she found out who that someone was along with where they lived. As soon as she had the information she needed, she quickly sprang into action. She picked my wife up from a church youth meeting and made a beeline to confront the other woman (OW). My wife was to “Get in, we’re going somewhere.”
For my wife’s mother, the fact that it was 9:15 PM on a school night didn’t matter. She was going to show her how ‘it’s done’. All the way there my wife heard about how ‘bad’ her dad was in doing what he did and how terrible this other woman was. My wife cringed as her mother began going into the details of the sexual activity that went on. She didn’t want to hear that about either of her parents.
My wife sat in the car when they arrived at the address. Her mother stormed up the walkway and began pounding loudly on the door. When the OW arrived, she proceeded to tell her off and managed to use every derogatory term her mind came up with. Although my wife was young when the incident happened, it continues haunting her memories of her parents. That ugly episode stains her recollection of her growing-up years.
The problem with some of those bad memories is that they intrude when they want to. If you’re like my wife, the memories come unannounced. When they do, you grasp for anything positive to dispel them. Affairs bring traumatic memories into your life. Parents forget that what they do and say makes an impression on their children. All the stories about how ‘bad’ someone is or the sexual things they did.
Hearing about the affair or being dragged into affair confrontations isn’t fair to your children. It brings them unwillingly into an adult world of ugliness. That ugliness leaves vivid memories and recollections. Such episodes are traumatic for children and continue stalking them as an adults.
If you are struggling with similar experiences or other traumas associated with an affair, there’s hope. In my video on “Overcoming Affair Trauma”, I share ways of moving past those bad memories and episodes in your life. Your mind and reactions don’t have to stay stuck in what happened. The traumatic scars are there whether you were a participant in the affair or the child of one of the participants.
When you download the video, you’ll be taking the first steps toward freeing yourself from memories that linger like a bad taste in your mouth. Even the sensations associated with those memories can become a thing of the past.
Order your copy today and free yourself from the specter of your past.
Keeping It Real,
Jeff
