Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your relationship

without your man's conscious effort so that you feel desired, taken care of,

and special even if your relationship feels completely hopeless.

I'm Laura Doyle and today's podcast is about how to get past cheating.

My guest Mary Beth was happy in her marriage for many years and never dreamed anything would go wrong.

But after a serious car accident and a death in the family, things started to fall

apart. She was in despair about the state of her marriage because her husband was so

angry and so detached. She didn't see how it would ever get better and she was

terrified. But she found something that gave her hope and decided to do the things she had never done before

to have the relationship she never had before.

Today her marriage is full of laughter and love and she says it's a source of

strength and confidence that she turned it all around. She's going to tell us

exactly how she did it so you can do it too. And then I'll be giving out the worst

relationship advice of the week award which is from an advice columnist in a rather

large well-known magazine where she advises her dear reader on what to do about her husband not helping when she asks for help.

All that is coming up, but first let's talk about how to get past cheating. I'm going to share three very specific ways you can recover and be better than ever.

Getting cheated on is ridiculously painful. It's a betrayal that hurts like crazy and it seems

like it could be impossible to recover from personally and as a couple. I mean how could he? It's human to want to

make him hurt too and to yell and throw things. It's irresistible to want to berate him from crying in your ice cream

to asking your sister how could he do this to me? Your husband's affair can take up a lot of

room in your head. You'll find yourself

desperately looking for relief from that sharp ache. That's when the doorway

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