NOT "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity

I would recommend this book more for those couples reconciling a physical affair more than couples reconciling an emotional only affair only because the examples are based primarily on the physical side, but there are some internal “thought” scenarios that work for both. If nothing else it will give the betrayed spouse a simple idea of how a friendship developed into an affair and the betrayer some examples of what they have... Read Full Review

Ever since my spouses affair 30 years ago, her refusal to ever talk about it, and then her reaching out to him 25 years later, I have been plagued with questions I could only speculate answers to. This book not only addressed all of these questions, it explained why I am still unable to move forward. PISD is real and has affected me all this time in every aspect of my life and my relationships.

I've only known of my husband's affair for about 6 weeks. It has floored me and has totally rocked my world. After reading this book, I realized I should have seen it coming. This book brought so much to my attention. While not a bad marriage, I wouldn't call my marriage good either. It ceratinly isn't what I wanted in a marriage. Some where along the way, we stopped really communicating and meeting each other's emotional... Read Full Review

I am a clinical psychologist,a wife and mother. I have read many, many books on affairs and treated literally hundreds of couples recovering from the marital carnage of affairs. This book is the best. My clients involved in affairs find it the most helpful and so do other therapists. Nothing else even comes close. Her examples ring true. There are no false notes. I suspected that since she hadn't experienced an... Read Full Review

I immediately ordered 4 copies of "Not Just Friends" after hearing Dr. Shirley Glass' fascinating interview on the Connie Chung Show. The description of emotional affairs in the work place made me concerned for the security of my adult children's marriages. I wanted them to understand what I had been too naïve to know. My own marriage ended after 35 years because my husband never admitted his many infidelities and would... Read Full Review