It takes two to build and one to destroy: The cheating partner works alone
Love and Abuse
Paul Colaianni
4.6 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
When the partner of a cheater carries guilt, thinking their own behavior caused the cheating, the relationship can disintegrate even further, destroying the very foundation of what's left.
The cheater works alone no matter what the partner has done. Accepting this means healing and moving on, whether the relationship survives the affair or not.
Love and Abuse is the official podcast of The M.E.A.N. Workbook on manipulation and emotional abuse at loveandabuse.com. #loveandabuse
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Love and Abuse, the show about helping you identify poisonous communication and toxic behavior. |
| 0:07.4 | You deserve to be treated with respect and kindness. |
| 0:10.9 | That's why it's important that you learn to pinpoint manipulative and controlling behavior |
| 0:15.1 | so that you keep your power and your sanity. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm your host, Paul Koliani. |
| 0:31.5 | Music power and your sanity. I'm your host, Paul Koliani. All right, welcome to another episode of love and abuse. |
| 0:34.1 | I want to address something that's been on my mind. |
| 0:37.2 | I've heard somebody or a few people say this to me. |
| 0:41.3 | And it is the people that say it takes two. |
| 0:46.7 | And the context I'm referring to is when someone cheats in a relationship, when someone is |
| 0:53.4 | the infidel or goes outside the values of the relationship |
| 0:58.1 | or the guidelines of a relationship. Because I think for the most part, people in relationships, |
| 1:04.5 | you know, romantic relationships want to have a monogamous relationship unless it's set up differently. |
| 1:11.7 | There are relationships out there that are set up differently. |
| 1:14.6 | They're open. |
| 1:15.7 | There are different guidelines. |
| 1:17.1 | There are different rules and structure for those relationships. |
| 1:20.2 | I'm not talking about those. |
| 1:21.9 | I'm talking about the relationship where you go into it and your partner goes into it |
| 1:25.6 | with the agreement that there will be no |
| 1:28.3 | betrayals. |
| 1:29.8 | There will be no infidelity. |
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