02: A Closer Look at Infidelity with Alicia Taverner, LMFT

Today we’re talking about relationship issues, especially when couples face infidelity and divorce. My guest is Alicia Taverner, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Join us as Alicia shares her wisdom on these difficult topics.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• Why Alicia’s purpose in therapy has always been to help and support women
• How her practice focuses on women and couples who are trying to “put themselves back together”
• Statistics on extra-marital affairs: (they are more common than you think!)
• The HUGE paradox in our beliefs and actions
• The importance of the language we use surrounding infidelity
• What is an “affair”?
• The emotional impact
• How women and men differ in their reactions to affairs
• How a relationship becomes vulnerable to an affair
• From Alicia’s blog: 5 things that come between couples and cause affairs
• The roles of disconnection and loneliness
• Why people have affairs
• The Vacuum of the Affair
• How to strengthen your relationship connection
• Don’t play “the blame game”
• How to take responsibility and HEAL
• Why the same problems might still exist
• Myths about infidelity
• Qualities of couples who recover
• Why an affair is a psychological trauma
• Alicia’s advice