I Feel Inadequate Since My Husband's Affair

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Sara's confidence was shaken by her husband's affair, but one quick call to Dr. Laura helps her reframe the situation. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM.
0:10.0	Triumph 111.
0:11.0	Sarah, welcome to the program.
0:13.0	Hi.
0:15.0	Hi.
0:17.0	I've been married 30 some years and we're together and we've worked it out.
0:24.0	My husband a while ago, now it's got 10 years, had an affair and yes, he chose to stay with me and we've worked it out.
0:33.0	And I know he loves me and cares.
0:36.0	Somewhere inside me, it's not the, my womanhood, is that make sense?
0:44.0	I feel, I have a hard time feeling that the, I just feel my womanhood has been diminished.
0:56.0	Not from, I guess I just feel that inside me and I, though we go along and everything's fine and the feelings are inside me.
1:05.0	I don't let him know that, but how do I ever get over that?
1:09.0	What do you mean by womanhood? I'm not sure I know what that means.
1:21.0	What I mean is that my confidence, my confidence as a woman, as his lover, as any of those things.
1:34.0	Okay, well let me ask you a few questions, let me ask you a few questions.
1:39.0	There are at least two ways to look at what happened.
1:43.0	One, you are inadequate as a woman and a wife, which is decide you chose to rest in, to marinate in.
1:54.0	Or he was an ass and a jerk and did something terrible and hurt you deeply and you're just never going to forget that.
2:03.0	So you have a choice. I think you picked the wrong thought.
2:09.0	Seriously, he was an ass and a jerk, he almost blew the best thing in his life, you and the family.
2:16.0	You forgave him, you stayed with him. Thank God for him, but you are going to pay the price forever, but the price is either recognizing that he did betray you.
2:30.0	But you, you know, the jeans are a little ripped, but you still want to wear them.
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