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Death, Sex & Money

Death, Sex & Money - Cheating Happens

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

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

4.67.7K 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. 

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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.

0:08.7

And one day I did, and it was just like, oh.

0:15.4

This is death, sex, and money.

0:18.7

Oh, I'm sorry. Are you speaking to me or sleeping with someone else?

0:21.3

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

I die or something.

0:33.1

I'm an assail.

0:36.0

Having an affair seems like such a big decision. Of course, it's really a series of

0:41.6

small choices. Once it actually finally happened and we started making out, I said,

0:50.7

fuck. And he was like, what? And I was like, I hoped you were going to be so bad at this.

0:56.2

You're going to hear a lot of cheating stories in this episode. I'm going to start with one.

1:01.3

Allie in Massachusetts met the guy she called her married boyfriend through work. They hit it off and started emailing and texting jokes to each other. He lived in another town, so they'd only see each other occasionally.

1:13.6

Each time, she felt pulled further in.

1:17.1

She was 29, single, and had never felt this way about someone,

1:21.6

even though she knew he had a wife, a two-year-old, and an infant at home.

1:26.5

I would say there was probably a two-week span of battling in my head

1:31.6

because my dad cheated on my mom,

1:36.6

so I was so against anti, like, no, you know what?

1:40.0

If you choose to be with that person, then you be with that person,

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