"No contact" means that the formerly cheating spouse sends a letter to their OM/OW, telling them that they can no longer EVER have ANY contact with them, and that what they did was wrong, and that they've decided to work on their marriage, and to please respect that decision and never contact them again either. The content of it is to be approved by the betrayed spouse, so that he/she feels comfortable with it, and then the BS is to be the one to mail it, to make sure nothing is added or embellished.
"Transparency" means that the formerly wayward spouse agrees to be transparent with their husband/wife, by changing their cellphone # (with detailed billing coming to the betrayed spouse), home #, e-mail address(es), exchanging daily schedules, etc. -- anything the BS needs in order an indefinite period of time in order to learn to rebuild trust again.
It's essential, and just the requesting of it will almost always flush out any B.S. (and this time, I don't mean "Betrayed Spouse" )
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