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A, J, and Rachel, welcome to the program.

Hi, Dr. Laura, I'm hoping you're having a good day.

So we're calling to try to follow up.

My wife had called back in September.

I had kind of went on a wayward pass. My wife had called back in September.

I had kind of went on a wayward path and had an affair,

kind of lost my mind in a way, I guess.

And she had called in, got some advice from you,

and I need to thank you because that advice was to try to save our marriage and try to give you back and it definitely turned me around and I've cleared up, you know, feel great moving forward, working hard, and we're just trying to get some advice and some help to continue to progress and move forward with our relationship and build that trust back and move forward and

forward and that's where we're at.

And Rachel, what is your point of view on this?

I think it was a really hard, your advice to me, your words were that I had one chance

and that I needed to not screw it up and to work really hard and then I needed to try to

so do so and you said he would be one in a million if he turned me down and he turned

me down and he turned me down but you had said if he did it was because of guilt and that definitely I just wanted to let you know he turned me down but I didn't stop for about a month. I kept trying really hard and I know he's worth it but I didn't know if it's normal to just

feel like I've built a wall up or if I just need to be set back on track, set straight and say snap out of it.

Because he's trying really, really hard.

I do feel like it was a mistake but it's just so hard sometimes especially when

something happens and it's just like wow it takes you right back. Okay, thank you for being this honest about it. A lot of people try to fake it and then we can never get to the core and make it better.

I want to tell you that what you're feeling is normal and when you get that

feeling of a bit of a wall tell him. I need you to do or say something right now because I somehow just feel like I have to

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