My Wife Had an Affair While I Was in Recovery
The Dr. John Delony Show
Ramsey Network
4.8 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I've struggled with a gambling addiction for a number of years. |
| 0:09.0 | And when I started to enter recovery, I soon found out that my wife had been cheating on me with another guy. |
| 0:17.0 | And I think we're both at the point where we want to regain trust with each other. |
| 0:22.5 | Okay. |
| 0:22.9 | Why now? |
| 0:29.5 | What's going on? |
| 0:30.6 | What's going on? |
| 0:31.2 | This is John with the Dr. John Deloney Show coming to you from Nashville, taking your calls on your marriages, your emotional health, your mental health, whatever you got going on in your life. You want to be on the show? Click the link in the show notes and it will take you right to the form. You can fill it out. Or you can go to johndeloney.com slash ask. But Kelly prefers you to click the link in the show notes. All right, let's go out to Vancouver, British Columbia, and talk to James. Hey, James, what's up, dude? Hi, Dr. Jolani. It's an honor that you're taking my call today. It's an honor that I get to talk to you, brother. What's up? Hey, hey, I, um, I wanted to know. Sorry, I'm a little bit nervous. |
| 1:11.3 | Okay, I'm going to hit you with it. |
| 1:13.3 | Bring it. |
| 1:14.2 | I have, I have struggled with a gambling addiction for a number of years and it ruined my marriage. |
| 1:23.5 | And when I started to enter recovery, I soon found out that my wife had been cheating on me with another guy. |
| 1:32.9 | Long story short, we are still together, had stayed together, but we have not worked on our marriage. |
| 1:40.5 | And I think we're both at the point where we want to regain trust with each other and work on this. |
| 1:48.4 | But I find myself always hesitating because things are good, but they're not great. |
| 1:54.0 | So I just, I don't want to, I don't want to destroy that with anything else that's gone in my past or anything like that. |
| 2:04.6 | Okay. |
| 2:05.1 | So how do we regain trust together and rebuild this thing? |
| 2:09.2 | Are you sober right now? |
| 2:11.8 | Yes, I am. |
| 2:13.1 | How long? |
| 2:15.2 | Seven years free of a gambling addiction. |
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