My Wife Wants to Divorce After My Affair

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

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

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0	Big news.
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0:20.5	I had an emotional affair with a coworker in 2022 when my wife found out it was pretty traumatic.
0:27.6	And so I'm sitting in this at 50 just trying to figure out like, how do I start over?
0:33.3	And what do I do?
0:35.3	One of her big questions is why?
0:37.5	And I don't know how to answer that.
0:44.5	What's up?
0:45.3	What's up?
0:45.7	This is John, the Dr. John Deloney's show.
0:49.5	There's 11 trillion podcasts you can be listening to, and you pick this one.
0:53.5	I'm super grateful that you're with us.
0:54.9	So if you're watching this on the YouTube's,
0:56.7	there's about a billion years worth of information out there and you're watching us here.
1:02.0	I'm so glad that you are with us.
1:05.1	If you want to be on this show, go to johndeloney.com slash ask.
1:08.3	This is real people with real challenges.
1:12.5	And here's my promise.
1:16.8	I'll sit with you and we'll try to figure out what's your next right move. Sometimes we don't know what to do. Sometimes we have to stop, grieve it, lick our wounds, check in with somebody and then go do the next right thing.
1:26.3	Take the next right step. Let's go out to Columbus, Ohio and talk to Jason the next right thing, take the next right step.
1:31.1	Let's go out to Columbus, Ohio, and talk to Jason. What's up, Jason?
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