ABSTRACT
It happened towards the end of an exhausting, intense but seemingly helpful second session with a couple in a midlife crisis. Sharon and Tom sat closely together on the same couch, despite the fact that they were discussing ending their marriage. Sharon had initiated therapy when she discovered that Tom was having an affair. Between the first and second session with me, Tom had revealed that he had been unfaithful regularly for the twenty years of their marriage. Their dependable homelife, based on traditional religious values and center to five children, seemed to be crumbling in the face of his lies, and betrayal.
