E1097 Ask Nick - My Husband Keeps Choosing Her Over Me
The Viall Files
Nick Viall
3.8 • 26.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 142 minutes
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Summary
Our first caller's situationship lied straight to her face and she still went back. Why can't she break the cycle? Our second caller's husband is choosing another woman over her, and she feels like she's done everything. And our third caller fell in love with her best friend, awwe… but then he ghosted her! How does one even begin to process that?
"He's not your best friend, he was never your best friend. You guys had a close relationship, you have to change the narrative."
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:13 - Caller One
37:48 - Caller Two
1:45:20 - Caller Three
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| 1:07.1 | You're crazy. |
| 1:18.7 | How's it going? |
| 1:19.2 | Good. How are you? |
| 1:19.8 | Good. |
| 1:20.2 | Awesome. |
| 1:21.1 | My name's Brooke and I'm 27. |
| 1:23.9 | How can I help, Brooke? |
| 1:24.7 | Yeah, so my situation ship lied to me about being 10 years older than me, and I still went back to him. |
| 1:31.2 | Yeah, so just looking for some advice on how to not go back to old situations. |
| 1:37.8 | Have you done this more than with him? |
| 1:40.6 | Yeah, I've done this a few times, just to avoid making new connections, |
| 1:45.2 | because I do find connection sometimes hard with men. So, yeah. Do you think that's the reason? |
| 1:50.9 | I think part of it, yeah. I use dating apps and whatnot, but honestly, one in every huge handful of men I actually have a conversation with. So I just find it hard |
| 2:04.2 | to connect. And yeah, I just keep going back to people that I know I shouldn't. And yeah, |
| 2:09.5 | it's kind of putting me in scenarios. In your pursuit of finding your person, do you think it |
| 2:16.2 | should be easy? And I know you've said this quite a bit in the past. |
| 2:21.2 | And I actually, I say this to my friends too. I don't think it should be easy. Like finding connections |
| 2:26.2 | should be a bit of a process. You're not going to connect with everyone. But the ones that I do connect |
| 2:31.6 | with, I seem to hold on to for some reason, even if they've done me dirty, |
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