From Alienation to Reconciliation
Promote Relationship Healing
- Work to restore trust.
- Make sacrifices for recovery.
- Make and keep recovery promises.
- Let your recovery works be known.
- Faithfully disclose your experience of addiction and recovery.
- Show sincere, explicit remorse and suffering for the consequences of addiction.
- Share your spiritual and moral awakening.
- Struggle to make restitution for harm done.
- Work for forgiveness.
- Develop a correct understanding of forgiveness.
- Promote forgiving by helping both partners understand the psychological, relationship, and spiritual benefits.
- Recognize a forgiving heart.
- Work with anger/indignation.
- Use repentance to promote forgiving.
- Create a shared, compassionate narrative.
- Involve the spouse in recovery.
- Explicitly enact forgiveness work.
- Find greater strength to forgive through prayer, fasting, and feasting on the words of Christ.
- Seek marital enrichment.
- Build emotional affection and intimacy.
- Build friendship, unity, and love.
- Address marital sexuality.
- Repair marital attachment.