Recovering From Infidelity: Can Love Survive Betrayal?
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
What really happens after someone cheats—and is there ever a way back? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Monique Thompson, a licensed psychotherapist, bestselling author of the Infidelity Recovery Workbook for Couples. She reveals why “going back to the way it was” is never the goal, how to know if your discomfort is about your partner or your own unresolved past, and the science-backed number of minutes it actually takes to heal betrayal trauma (spoiler: it’s fewer than you think). Her no-nonsense, non-judgmental approach will completely change the way you think about cheating, trust, and what’s possible on the other side.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:08.0 | Guys, I'm so excited for today's conversation for this guest. |
| 0:11.8 | As soon as I knew she was going to be on the podcast, I've just been counting down the |
| 0:15.2 | days for this conversation to happen and then for the episode to come out. |
| 0:18.8 | So without further ado, Dr. Monique Thompson, |
| 0:21.7 | she is a licensed psychotherapist, an infidelity recovery expert, which is so cool. And she is |
| 0:28.2 | the bestselling author of Infidelity Recovery Workbook for Couples. Dr. Thompson, Dr. Monique, |
| 0:33.4 | I should have asked you what you like to be called. I like just, you know, Dr. Thompson, |
| 0:37.4 | Dr. Monique or Monique, whatever you say, Alana, we're good. |
| 0:40.4 | We're good. |
| 0:40.8 | We're friends now. |
| 0:41.8 | We're friends now. |
| 0:42.5 | We're best friends. |
| 0:43.4 | Well, welcome to seeing other people. |
| 0:44.8 | It is an honor to have you. |
| 0:46.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:46.4 | Same here. |
| 0:50.4 | What made you specialize in infidelity? I mean, there's so many things. And this is one that is so |
| 1:03.8 | important. And I've never spoken. I've had over 400 episodes and I've never spoken to an |
| 1:09.4 | infidelity expert. So I'm so excited to have you. Well, so I've had over 400 episodes and I've never spoken to an infidelity expert. So I'm so excited to have you. |
| 1:12.9 | Well, so I've been practicing for 24 years. And earlier in my career, I worked with a very, very difficult population. |
| 1:22.9 | I'm adult male sex offenders. And the training for that was so rigorous and exhausting. And one day I said to the |
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