When TRUST Has Been Broken in Your Marriage

1. Carefully consider who you go to for advice about your relationship.

This is HUGE. It’s natural and healthy to want to talk to someone when we’ve been hurt or when we’ve blown it. However, we must make sure we don’t share details of our marital trials with a friend who is only going to tell us to leave. A good formula to follow when deciding who to go to for advice is to make sure that this person loves God, loves you, loves your spouse, and is pro-marriage. Otherwise, you will most likely get negative advice that will throw you off course and make you lose hope that your marriage will be restored.

The couple we spoke to who had dealt with broken trust decided to go to their pastor. He helped them to process their feelings and gave them some practical next steps. This couple also decided to join a support group at their church with people going through their same struggles. They knew this would be a safe place to share and learn. This husband and wife also decided NOT to share details of the broken trust with their families, because they knew that it would be hard for family members to not take sides. This was a very wise move because it helped them to keep a healthy relationship with their parents and in-laws without them having a permanently fractured view of the spouse who broke the trust.

Click HERE to read about another couple’s miraculous story of hope and restoration after trust had been broken.