06/01/2026
"If you’re hiding s*xual behaviors—p**n, affairs, hookups, emotional entanglements, compulsions—you can not show up honestly in therapy.
You enter that room protecting your image, not your marriage.
So, the sessions become filled with minimizing, deflecting, spiritualizing, or blame-shifting.
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Couples therapy fails when one partner is hiding secrets. Learn why hidden addiction or affairs make marital counseling re-traumatizing for the wife and why individual recovery must precede joint therapy.