Keep yourself active and don’t allow yourself to worry: When our world is shattered, we sink into depression and when we are depressed, our energy levels touch rock bottom and we don’t feel like doing anything. But slipping into despondency after being devastated by a cheating spouse issue isn’t going to help. You will be able to present a normal front to your children and also think clearly, if you are not too dejected.

This will happen if you keep busy and don’t brood. This doesn’t mean that you mustn’t think. Thinking is different from brooding. When we feel sorry for ourselves, we resentfully concentrate on negative points and go over them again and again, like a record stuck in a groove. But “thinking” is to consider all sides of a matter, coolly. Brooding won’t help you, but thinking will.