Infidelity recovery / INF-A05-5
Questions with a Clinical Container — Review journal
Review an attempt at questions with a clinical container and choose what to keep, change, or leave aside.
10 minutes · Journal prompts · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Lee wants clarity about ongoing contact but does not want explicit imagery.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. Questions can be paced to reduce avoidable harm and preserve informed choice.
Before looking back
Choose one ordinary attempt or decide to review the fictional example instead. This journal has no scores, required disclosure, or expectation of progress.
Revisit the practice
With a qualified clinician, sort questions into practical information, relationship meaning, and potentially distressing detail; no graphic disclosure is required.
Notice context and impact
Record what actually happened, including an unhelpful or neutral outcome. Note resources, power differences, accessibility, and changed conditions rather than attributing everything to personal effort.
Choose a revision
What information supports decisions, and what might add distress without helping? Keep the approach, change one part, ask for support, or set it aside. A mismatch is useful information.
Prompts for this resource
- What I tried, or what happened in the fictional example:
- What I noticed before, during, and after; what remains uncertain:
- What helped, did not help, or was outside my control:
- What information supports decisions, and what might add distress without helping? My optional adjustment or support request:
Conceptual background
Integrative Model of Affair Recovery — American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.