It wasn’t my intention to imply that the cheating spouse is incapable of feeling empathy or never…
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It wasn’t my intention to imply that the cheating spouse is incapable of feeling empathy or never has before or never will in the future. My point was that the very act of cheating itself is
a behavior severely lacking in empathy. If someone is going to betray their spouse in that way, they have to emotionally detach themselves on some level in order to follow through with that
behavior - especially if it’s repeated behavior. When someone is already in that pattern and mindset, they’re not regularly practicing empathy toward their spouse and therefore, it can be
more difficult to access it in recovery without enough time for self-growth and reflection. And, I understand that one of the reasons behind this wife’s lack of empathy was fear, but that
doesn’t mean that her behavior was empathetic by any stretch. It was self-serving.