Dating While Healing From Trauma

In april 2020, I found out that the man that I loved and was in a relationship with for 14 years had a secret baby with another woman. the baby was 8 months old. he and I agreed: no marriage no babies and had a great life together with no previous suspicions of cheating. needless to say, it floored me.

I'm just getting back into the dating world and I'm concerned about bringing this trauma into a future relationship. my mental health is a high priority and I appreciate any advice you can give so I can move forward without taking this trauma into a future relationship.

Thank you for sharing your wisdom.

You should be really proud of yourself from walking away from that relationship. Whether you did it as soon as you learned of his indiscretion or soon after, what matters is you chose your own sanity and well-being over being in a relationship. That’s not an easy thing to do.

I wish I could say that you could heal from this trauma fully and lock it away in a brain vault. You’re probably alw…