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Not Just Friends

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Sidelined by my (F34) fiancé’s (M38) groomswoman (F37)

Get two copies of "Not Just Friends" by Shirley Glass and tell him you are both reading a chapter a day and discussing what you read every night--either at dinner or after. He needs to "hear" from a…

r/relationship_advicecomment4/7/2026
My boyfriend (22M) of 18 months REFUSES to introduce me (22M) to his family, except as a “friend”.

My boyfriend (22M) of 18 months REFUSES to introduce me (22M) to his family, except as a “friend”. — For background, myself and my bf are from two different Western European countries, and met in a third country while studying. We lived in the same city for 9 months, including living together for a …

r/relationshipspost4/5/2026
Recovering from emotional affair.

Have you read "Not Just Friends"? It is a great read. It puts things into perspective. True healing CAN occur and not all emotional infidelities progress to physical. Reddit is a sample of the truly …

r/survivinginfidelitycomment3/24/2026
I 20M broke up with my 21F girlfriend after she proposed to open up our relationship and now everyone is telling me to get back with her basically

What a shitty way to find out your parents and her parents were swingers and not just friends u/ThrowRA728347.

r/relationship_advicecomment3/25/2026
16 years together feels destroyed...

You're not overthinking. She hasn't even really dove deep into "why". The only "why" is basically, "you are garbage". Sorry but the "not much reasoning as to why she did it other than occasionally say…

r/survivinginfidelitycomment3/26/2026
16 years together feels destroyed...

Go easy on yourself, mate. You've been stabbed in the back by the very person who should have had your back. Her stonewalling and not answering questions about her affair only keeps you de-stabilised.…

r/survivinginfidelitycomment3/26/2026
16 years together feels destroyed...

I highly recommend the book, "Not Just Friends" by Shirley Glass. I am only two weeks out from discovering my partner’s affair but this really helped me understand how/why it happened. Most importantl…

r/survivinginfidelitycomment3/27/2026
16 years together feels destroyed...

I'm so sorry you're going through this, and it does get worse before it gets better - im still waiting for it to get better. I read not just friends and asked her to do the same - she has read 12 per…

r/survivinginfidelitycomment3/27/2026
Books to help after betrayal

“Not just friends”. By Shirley Glass “Cheating in a nutshell” by Wayne and a Tamara Mitchell “The betrayal bind” -Michelle Mays

r/survivinginfidelitycomment4/1/2026
Found out my friends are covering for a cheater

My wife's friends actively encouraged her to escalate her EA to a PA. One of these friends was having her own affair with a married subordinate at work. One of my conditions of reconciling was that sh…

r/survivinginfidelitycomment4/2/2026
At a loss and don’t know what to do

The book Not Just Friends helped me a lot to understand the healing dynamic and what I should and should not "tolerate" from the cheating partner. Not every aspect of the book pertained to my situatio…

r/survivinginfidelitycomment4/5/2026
The Gaslighting is So Exhausting..

"I just wanted to find you a friend" "I thought you two would really get on". Not Just Friends & Chump Lady's books were fantastic. She bought me CL's book, read 3 pages, I finished it and asked her …

r/survivinginfidelitycomment4/6/2026
Sidelined by my (F34) fiancé’s (M38) groomswoman (F37)

Read "not just friends". You will always be second to her in the relationship. Get out before you get married to him. Your instincts are not wrong. He can either set boundaries with her or lose yo…

r/relationship_advicecomment4/8/2026
I (29f) have been feeling jealousy for the first time with my fiancé (32m) over his new friend (29f). How can I move past this?

He should treat her no differently than he treats his male friends. Anything more than that is more than friends. You should both read the book Not Just Friends, it discusses emotional affairs. He can…

r/relationshipscomment4/11/2026