6062 SHOULD I FLEE MY MARRIAGE? CALL IN SHOW

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Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation, a caller grapples with whether to stay in his 11-year marriage, sharing feelings of loneliness and frustration. He details how COVID-19 and his wife's postpartum depression affected their relationship, leading to emotional isolation and communication breakdowns. The discussion reveals a lack of emotional guidance in his upbringing, contributing to his view of relationships as transactional. Stefan encourages the caller to confront his past, improve communication, and reconnect with his parents to better understand his emotional distance. The conversation concludes with the caller recognizing his loneliness and expressing a desire for deeper connections.

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0:00.0	Hi, Steph. I would like to do a call in and see if you could help me work through staying married or getting divorced.
0:06.4	I got married 11 years ago and it felt alone the last six or seven.
0:10.7	We dated about a year. For the most part, the dating period went well.
0:15.1	She was easy to get along with.
0:17.4	The red flags during dating on a trip was cut short because she said,
0:23.2	her said my friends who had not,
0:26.3	who I had not seen in years,
0:27.7	said I was cheating on her.
0:30.3	It would have been totally out of character for them to say that.
0:34.9	So I did not believe her.
0:38.4	I was not and have not cheated on her.
0:42.2	We were also both divorced, which is another red flag.
0:46.4	After getting married, we had a kid together, which went into postpartum depression for her about a year.
0:54.1	During that time, I spent a lot of time with a kid who basically came my only friend.
1:01.1	I spent a lot of time taking care of her.
1:05.8	A lot of nights, I would not even eat.
1:09.4	I would just play with her.
1:11.8	Lost about 30 pounds.
1:15.0	I cut off myself from most of my local friends and rarely spoke to my friends who were not
1:21.1	local.
1:22.7	I had moved several years earlier for work.
1:26.5	Then COVID hit and we were on the opposite sides. Her father,
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