148: What is Cheating in a Relationship?
The Empowered Wife Podcast: Marriage Help with Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
If you're asking yourself what cheating is, that means you're already between a rock and a hard place trying to figure out what to do. Like, what if he's sending inappropriate flirty messages to his ex from high school but you know he hasn't seen her in person? Or he's texting a female colleague all the time and won't show you his phone but says nothing is going on? What if you overhear him saying he has feelings for someone else? Or you find out he's got an online dating profile? It sure feels icky to know he's having intimate conversations with a woman who isn't you. Of course you want him to stop before he crosses the line, which brings up some very tough questions: How should you react? Does this mean your husband can't be faithful? Does it mean he's going to leave you? Can you even repair things from here, or is your marriage doomed to be another divorce statistic? Should you give him an ultimatum that you'll divorce unless he stops? Or should you try to be understanding but insist on marriage counseling? On today's episode of The Empowered Wife Podcast, we're talking about what cheating is in a relationship.
To say my guest Brenda was disillusioned about marriage is an understatement. She was resentful about always having to be the responsible one and questioning whether she'd made a good decision to marry her husband in the first place. But then she tried an experiment and was amazed that it led to immediate closeness, connection and the realization that she has a good man. Today she says she has the true partnership she always wanted. She's going to tell us what she did so you can do it too.
The Worst Relationship Advice of the Week Award goes to some familiar tripe meant to help a woman who's anguished about her husband not coming to bed at the same time as her.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Empowered Wife podcast where it's all about fixing your marriage without your husband's |
| 0:13.9 | conscious effort so that you feel desired, taken care of, and special, even if your relationship |
| 0:20.3 | feels completely hopeless. I'm Laura Doyle and today I'm talking about what is cheating in a relationship and to say that my guest Brenda was disillusioned about marriage is an understatement. She was resentful about always |
| 0:35.2 | having to be the responsible one and questioning if she made a good decision to marry her |
| 0:39.8 | husband in the first place. But then she tried an experiment and was amazed that the results |
| 0:46.0 | led to immediate closeness and connection and the realization that she has a good man. Today she says she has the true partnership she always |
| 0:56.4 | wanted. She's going to tell us what she did so you can do it too. The worst |
| 1:01.1 | relationship advice of the Week Award goes to some familiar tripe that's meant to help a woman |
| 1:06.2 | who's anguished about her husband not coming to bed at the same time as her, but it's terrible. |
| 1:13.0 | All that's coming up, but first let's talk about what is cheating in a relationship? |
| 1:18.6 | If you're asking yourself the question, what is cheating in a relationship? |
| 1:21.9 | That means you're already between a rock and a hard place trying to figure out what to do. |
| 1:27.0 | Like, what if he's sending inappropriate flirty messages to his ex from high school, but you know he hasn't seen her in person. |
| 1:35.0 | Or he's texting a female colleague all the time and won't show you his phone, but says nothing's going on. |
| 1:41.6 | Or what if you overhear him saying he has feelings |
| 1:44.0 | for someone else? |
| 1:45.3 | Or you find out he's got an online dating profile. |
| 1:49.2 | It sure feels icky to know he's having intimate conversations with a woman who isn't you. |
| 1:55.5 | That's not the marriage you signed up for. |
| 1:59.1 | You don't want to be a fool just hoping it hasn't gone too far and you don't also want to be a jealous |
| 2:04.7 | possessive monster for thinking it's way over the line either. Mostly it's |
| 2:10.7 | terrifying because it could mean that something very bad is about to happen. |
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