Infidelity recovery / INF-A18-2
Rebuilding or Separating with Care — Practice worksheet
Map practical needs, personal priorities, and appropriate professional consultation for the path currently being considered.
15 minutes · Worksheet · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Lee is exploring whether to continue the relationship and wants practical clarity.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. Planning can support either repair or separation without privileging an outcome.
1. Choose a workable example
Use the fictional example below or an ordinary situation of your choosing. Keep identifying details out of shared copies.
2. Try the practice
Map practical needs, personal priorities, and appropriate professional consultation for the path currently being considered.
3. Compare possibilities
Generate at least two interpretations or options. Mark what you know, what you are guessing, and what remains outside your control.
4. Decide together
What would support agency whichever path you choose? Choose one small action, a support request, or no action. Review the fit with your clinician when relevant.
Prompts for this resource
- My chosen or fictional situation, and what I know about it:
- My response to the practice task above:
- What would support agency whichever path you choose?
- An optional next step, support, adaptation, or reason to stop:
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.