Can a Marriage Break Save Your Marriage After Cheating?

If you've been caught cheating you might be wondering if something as simple as a marriage break can save your marriage after cheating. It's a tempting way to deal with the problem at hand at first sight. There are a few compelling reasons you might want to consider it. Just remember that with the potential high reward of using a marriage break to save your marriage, comes the very high and very real risk that you could lose everything instead.

Potential Benefits of a Marriage Break After Cheating

1)   Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Even if your wife isn't on speaking terms with you in light of the discovery of your cheating ways, the odds are good that she does still love you. A little bit of a break from having you around and in her life day after day might just be the trick it takes to make her willing to give your marriage a second chance.

2)   There is still love there. The one fact that far too many couples overlook at a time like this is that a switch didn't just get flipped to turn off all the love your wife has for you. There's still love there. And, as long as there is love there, there is hope that you can save your marriage. Sometimes it just takes a little time to see it for what it is through the pain and sadness over what has happened.

The Potential Downside of Marriage Breaks After Cheating

1)   Your wife could get a taste of how the other half live and decide she really likes it. Stranger things have happened. This is more common in long marriages or when you married one another young. Sometimes it just takes a little opportunity to enjoy the single life for her to re-evaluate things at home.

2)   When there aren't adequate ground rules this can be a dismal failure for the sake of the marriage. You have to have clearly defined ground rules BEFORE you take the break or your marriage is surely doomed. Too many couples fail to set these and things are said and done during the break that are too much for the marriage to survive.

Many marriages have been saved as a result of taking a marriage break. The odds are good that your marriage could rank among the many provided you take the right steps to ensure its success.