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Has anyone read : Infidelity Crisis: How to Gain Forgiveness and Respect After Your Affair." I came across this title on DearPeggy.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

As I remember, it's a book written for the WS, so I didn't read it, although I read plenty of others.

This was the only book my fWH read and he used it to write a timeline and to answer my questions that he had refused to fully address before. He positively rejected anything to do with infidelity on the basis that he knew what he had done and he knew how to deal with it better than anyone else. I think the book was a little bit of an eye-opener for him.

I reckon the main reason he read this one was because it was short!!

WH is reading it now, I read the intro and stopped where she said that BS should not read any further. I guess I can ask WH to read the Linda McDonald book next and tell me how they are different.

I was just curious as I have not seen it recommended to WH and from what little I read, I thought it was good.

...I read the intro and stopped where she said that BS should not read any further...

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Just trying to understand WHY a BS should not read any further.

Her argument is that then the BS will have a certain set of expectations and if the WS fails to implement all the ideas...it would cause issues, like disappointment or something along those lines.

I personally chose not to read it, because I have enough of books to read on my own healing process. I was just wondering how it stacks up to the Linda McDonald, that is all.

I've just googled Linda MacDonald and can I assume you are talking about the author who has written "Meeting Lydia" and three others on the same characters?

If this is the case, I don't see how they would compare since the MacDonald book set is fiction and the Katie Coston is a kind of therapist talking directly to the adulterer, as if in IC. I thought it was the kind of book fWH might just about manage, but it did take quite a while before he actually came around to grasping what he had to do and why. He just wanted it all to go away! I did read it myself some time later and thought it gave sound advice and a good degree of understanding.

Thanks for the name though - I've just ordered Meeting Lydia from Amazon. FWH met up with MOW through Friends Reunited..... Not pain-shopping or picking at scabs and scars, just trying to comprehend the incomprehensible even after all these years.

Linda MacDonald - How to Help Your Spouse Heal from Your Affair

So - did anyone read the entire Coston book?

Helpful?