My Affair Ruined My Relationship With My Son

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

Relationships, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:00.0	I had an affair and I have a 16-year-old son and my relationship with him is not good.
0:12.0	It feels like someone has died.
0:15.0	Yeah, they have.
0:16.0	I'm assuming during moments of clarity you've sat down and said, I was wrong, I blew this thing up and I'm sorry that I blew your life
0:23.3	man.
0:29.4	Yo, what's up?
0:30.8	What's up?
0:31.3	This is John with the Dr. John Deloney's show, coming from Nashville, Tennessee.
0:35.9	Take in your calls.
0:37.7	Real people going through real challenges.
0:40.1	I'm a real person.
0:41.6	I'm a real boy.
0:43.1	And we are taking your calls on what's going on in your marriages and your mental and emotional
0:48.4	health with kids, family life, everything.
0:51.4	You want to be on the show?
0:52.1	Go to john Deloney.com slash ask. And please take 30 seconds really quick, really quick, and hit the subscribe button. Whether you're watching this on YouTube or you are listening on your favorite podcast player. All right, let's go out to Charlotte, North Carolina, and talk to Dale. Hey, Dale, what's going on? Hey, Dr. John. How are you? Doing all right. How about you? I'm doing good. Thank you. It's an honor to speak with you. It's an honor to talk to you. What's going on? Thank you. Well, I've listened to your show for years and always respected your advice and just thought I would write in with my issue and see if you had any words of advice for me. About two years ago, I got
1:29.0	divorced. I had an affair, and I have a 16-year-old son, and my relationship with him is not good.
1:37.6	He is extremely hurt, as I can understand, from what I did, and we really don't have a relationship at all.
1:47.7	I have legal joint custody of him with my ex, but he has never spent the night with me.
1:54.8	He rarely communicates with me.
1:57.3	I'll go weeks at a time without seeing him. And it's just been really hard.
2:04.7	I just, I don't know what to do.
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