Monique ThompsonLicensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor & Infidelity Recovery Specialist

Reason #8 - counseling for infidelity isn’t working-You have faith, but you’re not listening to God.

22 Jun 2025 · 2 min

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This content was created by Monique Thompson. This content was uploaded by Monique Thompson. This is a YouTube video titled "Reason #8 - counseling for infidelity isn’t working-You have faith, but you’re not listening to God." It is a short monologue by Dr. Monique Thompson (created 2025-06-22T17:46:00+00:00) offering faith-based guidance about why infidelity counseling may fail. Thompson's core point (#8) is that people often pray for God to fix another person's behavior instead of pausing to listen for what God wants them to do personally; she urges listeners to open their hearts to hear God's guidance and to hold humans accountable in the recovery process.

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All right, Dr. Monique Thompson here, and here's the number 8 reason. And this might be the most unpopular video or short that I'm going to do about this, about why your infidelity counseling may not be working, because this one has to do with faith. When you pray and your prayer is specific to, I want this person to change, or I want this cheating to stop, or why can't God change this situation, you're bringing into this really tender dynamic something that suggests that you just place an order like you're going through a drive-through and you tell God what to do. And when you get to the window, if he didn't deliver it, then maybe you need to drive back around. When in fact, there are so many complicated factors when it comes to humans. Consider the easy complication of humans making a choice and needing to be held accountable, which is the basics of infidelity. So before you rush into Praying that this will stop, first ask God to pray that you can hear him. All right, so the number 8 reason is that you're waiting for God to do something that you've prayed for him to do instead of opening your heart to hear God on what he wants you to do. All right, now this is gentle as I can put this one, but I hope you hear it tenderly and that whatever God wants you to understand from this particular video is what you take away from it. All right, the number 8 reason why your infidelity recovery work might not be working: you're needing to pause so you can personally hear from God. All right, good luck.