Sarah is Needlessly Punishing Her Husband

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Sarah is letting her husband’s recent revelation that he slept with another woman before they got married cast a cloud over their happy, decades-long marriage. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through
0:06.3	Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11. Sarah, welcome to the program.
0:13.8	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thanks for taking my call. You're welcome. So I have a situation where I'm 62 and I just found out that my husband had cheated on me shortly
0:29.3	before we got married.
0:31.2	We were high school sweetheart from 16 years old and I found out, and I'm like two months ago, and I was devastated at the time.
0:45.1	I still can't believe that this happened, and I'm just having a hard time moving forward
0:50.6	and trying to put it behind me and move on.
0:54.5	How old was it to if you when you got married?
0:58.4	We were 24.
1:02.1	Pretty young.
1:05.8	Not all that mature.
1:07.2	Yeah, I get that.
1:08.1	Okay.
1:09.2	And do you have any notion that he cheated during the marriage?
1:16.5	I do not. He assures me that this was the only time.
1:22.7	And how did you learn about this?
1:27.0	Well, we were just sitting on our swing one night on the patio, and I had just asked him,
1:34.6	because we always thought, well, I always thought it was just the two of us that were together.
1:39.1	Why, after all of these years, swinging in the evening, having a lovely time, would you say, have you
1:45.9	ever screwed around on me? Why would that even occur to you to ask? Because when I would
1:52.3	mention things like, oh, I'm so, you know, this is so wonderful that's always been, you know,
1:57.4	just the two of us, you know, we were each of our onlys. And then he
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