Infidelity, Trauma Bonds & When To Walk Away From a 20-Year Marriage To Be Better Podcast S4 E3
2 Be Better
Chris Burkett
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the To Be Better podcast, Chris and Peaches dive deep into a raw, unfiltered 20-year marriage story filled with childhood trauma, family chaos, serial infidelity, emotional cheating, open relationships, and failed poly experiments. They read a powerful email from a wife questioning whether she’s still compatible with her husband after decades of betrayal, gaslighting, and weaponized empathy, and explore how trauma bonds, chaos addiction, and unhealed wounds keep people trapped in relationships that no longer feel safe. Along the way they tackle topics like alexithymia, ADHD, autism, nervous system responses, hypervigilance, and how undiagnosed neurodivergence can impact communication, trust, intimacy, and long-term commitment.
You’ll hear blunt, practical relationship advice on rebuilding or finally walking away: when to stop giving more chances, how to protect your peace, what emotional cheating actually looks like, how to set non-negotiable boundaries, and why “life experience over degrees” matters in real-world marriage problems. Chris and Peaches break down victim accountability, people pleasing, choosing stability over chaos, and how to create a truly monogamous relationship after years of betrayal. If you’re searching for honest conversations about marriage, infidelity recovery, long-term relationships, couples communication, spiritual growth, and becoming a better partner, this is your episode.
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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, |
| 0:09.3 | 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. Welcome back. But there's nothing more Cause you made my heart be |
| 0:21.6 | And we are back |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome back Bumble bitches |
| 0:25.6 | Season 4 episode 3 of the To Be Better podcast |
| 0:28.6 | Season 4 |
| 0:29.6 | Episode 3 |
| 0:31.6 | Feels good doesn't it? |
| 0:32.6 | It does |
| 0:33.6 | I was doing so I was doing a lot today |
| 0:36.6 | Because you know that's what I do every morning. I do everything I can. I don't procrastinate. No. I get everything that I got to do done as soon as I got to get it done so that I can fuck off for the rest of the day. So as soon as I wake up, I grab my energy drink and I get to work. I need to be like you. And I almost got my year recap done. |
| 0:54.5 | I think I got like a couple more video overlays to put on that I'm downloading off of motion array, but like I'm getting there. |
| 1:00.9 | And like there's stupid things. |
| 1:02.3 | Like when I talk about the property, I want like a drone flying over property or like somebody walking through a wheat field or something just to kind of create content that's not just me staring at |
| 1:11.8 | the fucking camera. But other than that, I think that I'm done. I'm pretty excited about this. |
| 1:17.6 | I'm excited about it. It looks great. Thank you. Thank you. I felt not going to lie, not going to lie. |
| 1:23.4 | When I showed you what I did this morning, you were like, this is really fucking good, babe. I was like, |
| 1:27.1 | oh, thank you. Thank you this morning, you were like, this is really fucking good, babe. I was like, oh, thank you. |
| 1:27.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah, toss toss. |
| 1:32.9 | Shit made me feel real good about myself. |
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