Hey, everybody. Welcome. And thank you for listening to this episode of Marriage Therapy Radio. My name is Zach Brittle. I'm here with Laura Heck. We're here today with Dr. Monique Thompson. Dr. Thompson or Aunt Mo, as you might come to know her, is doing really thought-provoking work around infidelity and recovery and the trauma that's associated with that and how to process it and how to make sense of it.

We love talking to her. We couldn't get enough. We want to have her back. Not just because of her wisdom into how relationships work, but also she is apparently a very, very good cook. I think I talked her into making something for my daughter, Abby, who is in school right near where Dr. Thompson works and lives in the Dallas area.

I really loved her thoughts on infidelity and the particular recovery from invidelity and how that process works.

This is a very cool conversation. Stick around.

If you stick around to the end, Dr. Monique is going to give you her secret recipe and we'll clip it and we'll put that at the end of the podcast so that we have them hanging until the very last minute.

Does that sound good?

Jason, our producer is like, yes.

We'll see what he can get out.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are talking to Dr. Monique Thompson, who is out of Dallas.

The reason we started talking about cake is because my daughter, as I said, is at S&U.

And Dr. Monique Thompson is going to bake her bun cake for my kid and delivered to.

She's at Meadows.

She's at the Meadows school she's at

okay cool cool yeah i really will do this i have college students all over the country all i know i

believe you and they come home when they come home i bake cakes for them they let me know

where they're coming home and what kind of cake they want yeah i'm going to believe everything

that comes out of your mouth for the next half an hour because you clearly have thought it through.

But your area of expertise, your area of specialty is around infidelity.

Yeah.

For one of her areas.

Those survivors of sexual trauma, infidelity, those are the top two.

I do a lot of bipolar disorder, major depression.

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