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Amanda Deverich

Amanda Deverich

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and author of "Affair Repair" specializing in infidelity recovery and relationship crisis intervention

Jun 10, 2026

7:22
Mm-hmm.
7:23
This is when people go into fight and flight or freeze mode.
7:27
They're going into survival mode in the crisis phase.
7:30
After crisis is affair PTS for the person who was betrayed.
7:35
Because your body cannot sustain that level of vigilance that is in crisis, it begins to, the body begins to relax, but then it pops back up, and it's back on alert, and then it relaxes.
7:48
And then it pops back up, and it's on alert.
7:50
And what this looks like is, okay, we've already talked about we have the affair.

6 MINS LATER

13:56
Mm-hmm.

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