Infidelity seems so common to me these days. Several of my married friends have come to me with trouble in their relationship revolving around an affair or suspicions of an affair.

A friend of mine, Adriana, recently had a kid with a guy married to another woman who also has another kid by a third woman.

Another friend, Danielle, suspects her husband of cheating on her from emails she found on her husbands myspace account.

One of my closest friend, Ericka, who is recently engaged cheated on her fiancé and they are now struggling to save their relationship.

Even Laura and I struggled with our relationship at the beginning because she still had feelings about her ex who she kept in touch with at the time.

I can almost guarantee that all of these people will remain in their relationships and that eventually those betrayed will learn to trust. And those committing the betrayal will have done their part to earn back that trust.

I guess my point is that people make mistakes that are common enough in a relationship. I think people can change but it takes the full commitment of both parties to recover from an affair.