I Did a Stupid Thing

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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April is doing her best to save her marriage since admitting her affair. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:13.0	April, welcome to the program.
0:15.1	Hello, thank you for taking my call.
0:18.6	I started listening to you before I got married and then after I stayed home and had my
0:26.6	kids I stopped listening and I really should have kept listening because I kind of made a mess of things.
0:37.0	My husband and I have been together for 28 years. We have two sons that will be 22 this summer,
0:41.0	so they are out of the house.
0:46.6	He has been an active functioning alcoholic for about 20 years now. When our sons graduated from high school, and I was really struggling with who I am as not being the stay-at-home mom that I had been for 20 or 19 years.
1:07.8	We were moving.
1:09.1	It was COVID.
1:11.7	My mental health was not good. I ended up being unfaithful to my husband. I told him, we have been separated for about a year now.
1:23.0	I feel a lot of pressure to
1:27.0	stay in the marriage if he is willing to work on it because biblically if he's willing to forgive me I should stay.
1:40.3	I don't and he does not think that drinking is a problem.
1:45.0	I'm sorry what what is biblical about that thought?
1:51.0	I don't know that where I'm confused.
1:54.0	Where would you get the notion that biblically that's what's determined here?
2:00.0	Who told you this?
2:02.0	My pastor, but if he's willing to forgive me and work on the marriage, then I should stay.
2:10.0	But I don't think I can stay if he's going to continue drinking.
2:14.1	He doesn't think the drinking is a problem.
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