02: A Closer Look at Infidelity with Alicia Taverner
Posted: September 11, 2020
Today we’re talking about relationship issues, especially when couples face infidelity and divorce. My guest is Alicia Taverner, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Join us as Alicia shares her wisdom on these difficult topics.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- Why Alicia’s purpose in therapy has always been to help and support women
- How her practice focuses on women and couples who are trying to “put themselves back together”
- Statistics on extra-marital affairs: (they are more common than you think!)
- The HUGE paradox in our beliefs and actions
- The importance of the language we use surrounding infidelity
- What is an “affair”?
- The emotional impact
- How women and men differ in their reactions to affairs
- How a relationship becomes vulnerable to an affair
- From Alicia’s blog: 5 things that come between couples and cause affairs
- The roles of disconnection and loneliness
- Why people have affairs
- The Vacuum of the Affair
- How to strengthen your relationship connection
- Don’t play “the blame game”
- How to take responsibility and HEAL
- Why the same problems might still exist
- Myths about infidelity
- Qualities of couples who recover
- Why an affair is a psychological trauma
- Alicia’s advice