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Should I tell my kids their mom had an affair?
“Yes, Definitely Tell the Kids” “Admitting to an affair will likely cause problems in your relationship with your child. But, rebuilding and working through the anger your child feels will be easier if you are honest with him or her from the beginning,” Meyer writes.
When the mom cheats How does that affect the child?
Nogales’ research has found that 75\% of children experience lingering feelings of betrayal toward their cheating parent, 80\% say that the infidelity shapes their outlook about romance and relationships, and 70\% describe the infidelity as affecting their general trust in others.
What happens when a parent finds out their child has an affair?
Regardless of how their child found out, the parent who’s had the affair has to accept the anger from their child. Most people in that kind of situation will try to defend themselves, but with their child, the parent can’t defend their behavior — they have to acknowledge that what they did was wrong.
What is a child of infidelity?
Ana Nogales, Ph.D., author of Parents Who Cheat: How Children and Adults Are Affected When Their Parents Are Unfaithful, coined the term “children of infidelity” to identify children of any age whose parent or parents engage in one or more acts of infidelity.
Does the unfaithful spouse’s affair hurt the children?
It is true that children can be hurt by finding out this inconvenient truth about one of their parents. And, ideally, we ought to avoid unnecessarily hurting our children at all costs. But the unfaithful spouse is mistaken to believe the pain inflicted by the affair happens at the moment the child is told.
Do teenagers know about affairs?
Having said that, teenagers will almost certainly ALREADY know. It is hard to hide the marital dynamic of stress during an affair. It shocked me to hear how much our seventeen year old already knew or strongly suspected.