Episode 142: Catherine's Story- "My Marriage Fell Apart"
We Gotta Thing - Exploring Non-Monogamy
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4.7 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
This episode gets very real and very personal. Catherine, from Expansive Connection Relationship Coaching, tells her story of how her marriage fell apart while engaged in a non-monogamous relationship with her husband. Many couples fear this type of loss when considering and moving into and through non-monogamy. Catherine courageously shares her story so that others may benefit and be fully prepared for making such an important relationship decision.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains explicit language and content and is for mature audiences only. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey, you teenagers out there, if you're under 18, this show is more for your parents. |
| 0:11.0 | So now that you have that mental picture stuck in your head, put some music on and get back to doing your homework. |
| 0:17.0 | We are a long-time married couple who's decided to chronicle our personal adventures |
| 0:21.6 | and share our sex-positive discussions as we navigate our way through the swinging lifestyle. |
| 0:27.1 | Care to join us? Hello, everyone. I'm Mr. Jones. And I'm Mrs. Jones, and we want to welcome you to episode 142 of the We Got a Thing podcast. This is a little bit of a different episode tonight. |
| 0:57.2 | Yes, it's an origin story of sorts. |
| 0:59.5 | Or as Catherine called it, what's happened story. |
| 1:04.1 | Yes, yes. |
| 1:05.0 | A lot of you know Catherine from episode 41 on jealousy, episode 54 on drama and the lifestyle in episode 117 when we talked |
| 1:15.7 | about the lifestyle as an adult activity and we've had a collaboration with Catherine an |
| 1:22.1 | expansive connection for quite some time now. That's right. Well, since the beginning. |
| 1:26.5 | Since the beginning. We knew Catherine before expansive connection. Yeah. There's, I guess our philosophy on our |
| 1:35.8 | podcast is we only talk about things we experience. Yes. And so these origin stories give you a chance |
| 1:42.0 | to hear things that have happened to other couples, |
| 1:46.0 | how they've gotten into the lifestyle, some of the ups and downs and everything else that comes along with this. |
| 1:52.5 | And a few years ago, Catherine had a little bit of a bumpy ride, and she reached out to us not too long ago and |
| 2:03.3 | wanted to and asked us if she could tell her story on our podcast. So and she did it for a couple of |
| 2:11.9 | reasons. First of all, well, first of all, it's a real story. It's a realistic story. We haven't experienced this. |
| 2:19.5 | We know a few people have had, but it's really difficult to expect somebody whose marriage has fallen apart to want to publicly come on and talk about that. |
| 2:30.6 | Right, right. |
| 2:31.7 | But, I mean, the fact of the matter is the divorce rate in the United States is, you know, almost 50% and I don't think people that engage in the lifestyle are immune to that. No, they're not. But this was a way for Catherine to start to process it. Number one is to tell more people about it. |
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