Abstract

ALFONSO ROA, Liseth Karina  and  HERNANDEZ BEJARANO, Jovan Sneidder. Meanings of Love and Stories of Infidelity in Couples who Have Begun a Psychotherapeutic Process. Divers.: Perspect. Psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.16, n.1, pp.79-91.  Epub Jan 01, 2020. ISSN 1794-9998.  https://doi.org/10.15332/22563067.5542.

This article shows the results of the research/intervention project titled “Meanings and senses of love in couples with a history of infidelity”, carried out in the Santo Tomas University of Bogotá (Colombia). An effort was made to understand the meanings of love in couples who have suffered from deceit and disappointment in love associated with infidelity, and who have received psychotherapeutic intervention for the configuration of new versions of love, infidelity, and being a couple from a systemic-constructivist, social-constructionist, and complex perspective. Two couples whose reason for consultation was related to infidelity participated in this research, and five conversational narrative scenarios were developed with both of them, using intervention devices such as the construction of stories, sculptures, and metaphors. The main findings show stories from the spouses that are nuanced through idealized images of the couple that generates feelings of guilt; stories associated with silence and submission as a means to resolve conflicts; the deconstruction of infidelity stories to reconstruct the couple’s narrative plot based on particular aspects that connect the lovers; and the event of infidelity as a possibility for change.

Keywords : love; infidelity; couples in context; construction; conversational narrative; identity; gender perspectives; meanings.

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