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    Lived experiences of women living with their infidel husbands
    (UMT Lahore, 2021) ASMA ANWAR
    With the increasing rate of divorce and more empowerment of women, some women still prefer to continue marital relationship after disclosure of their husbands’ infidelity, even though such relationships are responsible for considerable distress. Therefore, the current study carried on with the objective of exploring the reasons behind women’s decision of marriage continuation after disclosure of husbands’ infidelity, and the ways through which they were managing to survive in such a marital relationship. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the five women who were living with their infidel husbands. Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. Through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), five superordinate themes were emerged named external factors, personal factors, personal strength, surpassing the betrayal, and relational strategies. The findings indicated the major role of external factors especially the “influence of children” responsible for marriage continuation as compared to personal factors. Furthermore, it was revealed that women tried their best to overcome the interpersonal trauma of being betrayed and found different ways to protect their marital relationships. The findings would be helpful to the family therapists to understand the couples’ problem coming in session with the issue of infidelity.