This audible original series contains mature themes.

Listener discretion is advised.

None of the couples featured are ongoing clients of Esther Perel.

For the purposes of maintaining their confidentiality,

names and some identifiable characteristics have been removed.

But their voices and their stories are real.

Couple two. A small town affair.

Many people told me that I was the last person on earth.

They thought would ever do something like that.

My dad was a serial cheater.

And I promised myself I would never follow in his footsteps.

But I did.

You know, I fell in love with someone.

That's what happened. I mean, I fell in love.

And I was in a sexless, dead marriage.

And I fell in love and was happier than I happened in my entire life.

I'm being shunned.

You know, I felt like the scarlet letter,

I said, big A in my chest.

And everyone's like, he's a cheater.

And he's toxic.

I think an affair in a small town, if it gets out,

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