To Be Released from Debt: An Experiential-Cognitive Case Conceptualization of Forgiveness and Healing for a First Time Couple Infidelity.
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| Title: | To Be Released from Debt: An Experiential-Cognitive Case Conceptualization of Forgiveness and Healing for a First Time Couple Infidelity. |
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| Authors: | Vensel, Steven (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | American Journal of Family Therapy. Oct-Dec2025, Vol. 53 Issue 5, p553-569. 17p. |
| Subjects: | Forgiveness, Psychotherapy, Mental health counselors, Family conflict, Stress management, Spouses, Emotions, Psychological adaptation, Couples counseling, Client relations, Mental healing, Commitment (Psychology), Adultery, Experiential learning |
| Abstract: | There is a deep literature on the role of forgiveness in couple infidelity indicating forgiveness as an ongoing process that has no definitive end point other than the passage of time. The experiential model presented in the paper leads to an emotionally powerful event whereby the offender is fully present to the partner's painful experience, shares that pain, which leads to an informed request for forgiveness and a subsequent declaration and bestowing of forgiveness and release of any further debt. It is a deeply intimate and powerful event in the lives of couples recovering from an infidelity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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| Abstract: | There is a deep literature on the role of forgiveness in couple infidelity indicating forgiveness as an ongoing process that has no definitive end point other than the passage of time. The experiential model presented in the paper leads to an emotionally powerful event whereby the offender is fully present to the partner's painful experience, shares that pain, which leads to an informed request for forgiveness and a subsequent declaration and bestowing of forgiveness and release of any further debt. It is a deeply intimate and powerful event in the lives of couples recovering from an infidelity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 01926187 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01926187.2025.2504890 |
