Cheating Happens

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

There's the cliche: someone cheats, crockery is thrown, lawyers are called. But your stories about cheating were much more varied, with some unpredictable conclusions. If you like this episode, check out this week's episode of the Aria Code podcast, from our friends at WQXR. It's all about "Dove sono," the aria about infidelity from The Marriage of Figaro, and includes a conversation with sex advice columnist Dan Savage. Don't miss our weekly newsletter! Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter and we'll send you weekly audio picks, behind the scenes updates and letters from our listener inbox. Follow the show on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time at [email protected].

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0:00.0	It was nothing that he ever tried to hide for me, but honestly I had just never looked down at his hand.
0:08.0	And one day I did and it was just like oh.
0:13.0	This is death, sex and money.
0:18.0	I'm sorry, are you speaking to me or sleeping with someone else?
0:21.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:24.5	Anyway, the word is carries around a lot of cash.
0:27.2	And need to talk about more.
0:28.9	Live for nothing.
0:30.6	Die.
0:32.1	For something. I'm Anna Sam.
0:35.0	Having an affair seems like such a big decision.
0:40.0	Of course it's really a series of small choices.
0:43.2	Once it actually finally happened and we started making out,
0:49.9	I said, fuck!
0:51.6	And he was like, what? And I was like, I hoped you were going to be so bad at this.
0:56.3	You're going to hear a lot of cheating stories in this episode.
0:59.2	I'm going to start with one.
1:01.2	Ali in Massachusetts met the guy she called her married boyfriend through work.
1:06.0	They hit it off and started emailing and texting jokes to each other.
1:09.9	He lived in another town, so they'd only see each other occasionally.
1:13.8	Each time she felt pulled further in.
1:17.3	She was 29, single, and had never felt this way about someone, even though she knew he had a wife, a two-year-old, and an infant at home.
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