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The Dr. Laura Podcast

#2 - Top 40 Countdown '23: Do I Tell My Kids About Their Dad's Affair?

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Naomi is divorcing her husband and would like to know if it's necessary to explain his affair to their children. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious XM Triumph 111.

0:11.0

Naomi, welcome to the program. Hi. Hi, what's happening? Okay, so first of all I'm very

0:21.0

nervous.

0:22.6

It's a pleasure to talk to you and I really need help with this

0:27.6

issue that I'm going through.

0:29.7

So in 2020, I found that my husband was having an affair and for the last two years I tried everything, therapy and just everything.

0:45.0

You mean he had a three year relationship with someone else?

0:50.0

No, no, no, on 2020 I found out that he had been having an affair for six months.

0:57.0

For six months and why did it end?

0:59.8

What made it end? He said that it was because of me because I didn't treated him well and that there was not enough. Why did his affair end?

1:15.0

What caused it to end?

1:17.0

Oh, what caused it to end?

1:19.0

I found out that they were having an affair? How did you find out? My son was making some

1:31.2

pranks on his phone and there was a phone call that he was receiving and it was from an

1:39.6

unknown number and I thought it was my son franking him again.

1:43.0

So I entered the phone and it was a lady.

1:46.0

So...

1:48.0

And tell me how that conversation went.

1:51.0

He took the phone away from me and immediately hung up. So I went to the phone

1:58.0

records and just started to see which calls or which numbers had the most minutes of talking and

2:07.9

or conversation between the numbers and that's how I figure it out. I found out that he would speak with her or call her for three to four hours.

2:20.0

And then I...

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