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Regardless of the reason people seek therapy, most people want reassurance they will be okay.

Good therapists instill hope.

Predicting positive futures makes positive outcomes more likely.

Last week, I worked with a couple whose marriage was dangling by a thread. The wife discovered that her husband had had an affair with a co-worker for 17 of the 25 years they had been married.

The news of this affair nearly did her in. Their two adult sons were told about their father’s infidelity and, despite the fact that they adored their father, they begged their mother to leave.

Yet, despite the monumental betrayal and the intense pain she felt in the aftermath of the discovery, the woman wasn’t certain she wanted a divorce. In the weeks that followed the discovery, her husband showed a part of himself she hadn’t seen for years, a part that she had craved for decades.

The decision to stay or go was secondary to dealing with unbearable pain she was experiencing........

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