I’m Scared of My Own Thoughts S4 Ep13

2 Be Better

Chris Burkett

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this raw and unfiltered episode of the 2 Be Better Podcast, we break down a powerful listener email about discovering a partner’s secret porn use, betrayal trauma, declining intimacy, and the emotional fallout that follows. We dive deep into trust, boundaries in relationships, phone privacy, resentment, sexual rejection, and whether porn in a committed relationship is cheating. If you’re struggling with rebuilding trust after betrayal, navigating intimacy after porn addiction, or questioning whether forgiveness is possible, this episode offers direct relationship advice rooted in accountability, communication, and self-respect. We also shift into a hard conversation about single men, divorce, loneliness, and the rising mental health crisis affecting unmarried and divorced men. Backed by research from Psychology Today, we explore male isolation, suicide statistics, family court realities, stigma, and how social narratives are shaping modern relationships. If you care about men’s mental health, marriage, masculinity, or the cultural pressures impacting dating and long-term commitment today, this episode will challenge your perspective and push you to think deeper about responsibility, loyalty, and rebuilding connection in modern relationships.

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0:00.0	And look how far we've come, all the things we've done, did it all with love, beauty from the bottom of, all I want is you, you're my favorite view, but there's nothing more.
0:20.4	And we are back
0:24.4	welcome back bumbley bitches
0:26.1	season four episode 13 of the
0:28.8	To Be Better podcast
0:30.3	I forgot we were actually working right there
0:32.2	there we go and it's not plugged in
0:33.8	my neck and my back I want
0:36.3	150,000 but we can settle out of court right now for $20. $10 in a box of envelopes, $2.50 and a jaw breaker. I have no idea what you're quoting right now. The Friday movie? The dude that slipped and fell in the store. I think I watched that movie once. And I think that we watched it together. Probably.
0:57.5	The movies we watched Run Together in my brain for me.
0:57.8	Yeah.
0:58.1	Yeah.
1:04.0	So we got the approval on the loan for the RV this morning,
1:07.3	got the insurance squared away on the RV this morning. I am going today at 4 p.m. to sign all of the paperwork, put down the down payment,
1:11.5	and then next Thursday in the morning, we get to go and pick it up. Yeah, we got a two to three
1:17.3	hour walk through on how to work everything. I will 100% be bringing a camera and carry.
1:22.7	Yeah. I am very excited to learn how to do this. Yeah, a whole lot of learning stuff that's going to happen. Yeah. I've also got the first four episodes of the art of war scripted. Exciting. Yeah, that's what I've been working on all morning. I don't know what I'm doing. I have so much going on. I took a little bit of a break. Had something things going on, life happened, and I had to
1:46.5	find a, am, am still currently find a way to cope with it, but I took a break from everything,
1:53.0	my women's groups, and I have now picked everything back up, and I really didn't realize
2:00.3	how much I did with my life. Just dawned on me as you were
2:04.2	saying, this is the first episode that we recorded for the podcast since you've been back. Because
2:08.4	like, why are you repeating all this? Because we just talked about this and it's, oh, this is for the
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