Psychology Today | 14.01.2026 06:21
While working with a patient whose spouse had committed infidelity, the patient told me that many of her memories had been “tarnished.” “I look back at what I used to think were happy memories with a different lens,” she said. “Now, knowing what was going on at the time, those memories all seem fake to me. They were based on a shared experience that wasn’t real. They no longer make me smile.” The new information today has changed her memories of the past–today she remembers them differently.
