How to Rebuild Trust After Infidelity: A Practical Guide for Couples

Discovering an affair can feel like your reality has been rewritten. The mind searches for answers, the body stays on alert, and the relationship can quickly become organised around fear.

In this essay, I explore infidelity through a psychoanalytic lens, not to excuse it, but to understand it and outline what makes genuine repair possible when both partners are willing to face what’s underneath.