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We Can Do Hard Things

3. INFIDELITY: How do we trust—and fully love—again?

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.842.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, discover: 1. The messed up way my sister Amanda learned her marriage was over -- and how that sabotaged her healing process. 2. How we often cling to unforgiveness because it’s the last connection we have left.   3. The one question not to ask someone who is recovering from infidelity and what you can say instead.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I walk through a fire I came out the other side.

0:12.3

Hi everybody, it's G. Thank you so much for coming back to We Can Do Hard Things before

0:18.6

we get started. Talking about infidelity, which is our topic for this week, another

0:26.2

easy one. I just wanted to say this, I am so grateful to you. I woke up this morning thinking

0:33.6

I am having more fun with my work right now with this podcast than I've had in a decade.

0:40.5

And I don't know, it feels so much less lonely than writing. When I start to write a book,

0:47.5

I'm just gone by myself in my head, which is not always the safest place to be for years.

0:54.8

And the other day, I told Abby how much fun I'm having, interacting with all of you and

0:59.8

doing this with my sister and my team. And she said, Oh, Glenn, and now you know what it's

1:04.7

like to be on a team sport. Oh my gosh. Okay, I get it a little bit. But my team sport involves

1:13.7

just sitting and talking. So anyway, I'm just grateful for you because you being there

1:20.2

is why I get to be here. Thank you. And now we're going to jump into a very juicy episode,

1:27.8

all about in fidelity, sweet Jesus. It's a tricky one. Let's just roll.

1:37.0

Today, we're talking about the hard thing of infidelity, which each of us has a long,

1:47.7

interesting history with. What is your definition? There's a million different ways we can talk

1:53.6

about infidelity. Okay. So for today, the kind of infidelity that I have been thinking about in

2:00.7

preparation for this conversation is sort of romantic infidelity, infidelity inside of a romantic

2:08.7

relationship. And I would define infidelity as a sort of breaking of some boundary that the people

2:16.4

inside of your relationship have mutually agreed upon. Great. Do you have a definition of

2:23.1

infidelity for this for our purposes today that is different than that or the same? I can go with

2:28.3

yours. That sounds good. Okay. So we're talking about infidelity, meaning the breaking of a boundary

2:34.5

that was mutually agreed upon previously between the people inside of a romantic relationship.

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