How can someone earn back trust after cheating?
Being willing to answer your questions, hanging in while you deal with the understandable emotions, demonstrating a commitment to the relationship by severing contact with the other person. All this is aimed at strengthening the bond that has been broken. It demonstrates a willingness to handle problems in a responsible way instead of trying to bury them, avoid them, or hope they go away. There are no shortcuts; the only way through this situation is to face it head on and deal with it. Even then, it will be difficult for everyone. But there is hope that by actively working together, you can come through this with a stronger relationship and greater trust than you had before. A crisis like this provides a chance to “get it right” something most of us didn’t really do in the first place when we had a kind of “blind trust” and just assumed everything would work out all right.
