I Wish My Kids Knew the Truth

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Duncan wishes he hadn't agreed to keep his wife's affair a secret from their kids now that she's living with the man she left them for. 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 listening to my call of the day podcast.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Duncan, welcome to the program.
0:14.3	Hi, Dr. Laura. Pleasure speaking with you.
0:16.0	Hi. Thank you.
0:20.0	So I was calling because I have a dilemma that I want to pick your brain on.
0:27.1	I listen to you regularly, and I like most of your advice.
0:33.0	So my wife of 13 years was unfaithful, and we have two kids, 14 and 12.
0:47.2	And when I discovered, we tried to work things out, didn't work out.
0:56.0	And she ended up... Well, when you discovered it, what was the explanation for her behavior?
1:01.0	What did she explain to you?
1:03.0	I want to know what working it out meant.
1:05.0	At first she denied everything.
1:08.0	At first she denied everything, but since since i had concrete evidence she eventually admitted
1:12.2	that she was having an affair with this fellow from her work and um uh at first there were
1:19.5	we were really vicious with one another and then after about two days of the viciousness
1:26.6	uh i never thought I would be able
1:29.4	to do it, but I looked myself in the mirror and said, I want to make this work. And so we tried
1:34.9	to reconcile.
1:36.0	But what was, well, she had a boyfriend. So why would she want to reconcile? What was her
1:43.7	point of view? That's what I'm trying to get at. What did she tell you?
1:49.0	Okay, so the boyfriend was out of the picture once it was discovered, she said she wanted to work it out.
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