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[quote=Anonymous]We are going through therapy for infidelity (he committed it, not me) and the therapist wants us to always be positive and just talk about our week and any good things we did for each other. It's been a month. I'm getting a little frustrated by this format. I do want to try to rebuild the marriage, but it seems superficial to just talk about the joy we find each week for ourselves and with our partner. We weren't joyless. He just decided to go out and experiment based on some lustful urge. With many people via an online chat group, some much younger and uglier than me. He says he only tried to get together with one person for real one time for sex that he almost went through with and wants to commit himself now to me, but I don't trust him enough to just accept this statement. He has some mental health issues, so I'm sure he's being honest in the moment, but not the future. I found conversations and photos shared with at least 10 of them. It's not like I'm hunting for a divorce, but the trust is gone and playing the game of find the joy each week isn't really making the amends I feel we need to make.

Should I stick it out or just try to find another therapist? Do all therapists just try to get people to play nice and not really work through problems? I'd like to talk about the past and the future, not just the good things that happened the past week.[/quote]

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