Should I Let My Wife Have Male Friends?

The Dr. John Delony Show

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

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0	About a year and a half ago, my wife had an emotional affair.
0:09.7	Did she ever sit down and say, I feel abandoned?
0:12.7	He cried to me for probably a year.
0:15.0	Okay. Where were you?
0:16.3	I didn't intentionally not hear it at the time.
0:18.4	I just thought I was doing what a man's supposed to do.
0:21.0	A man's supposed to listen to his crying wife.
0:28.8	What up? What's up? What's up? This is John with the Dr. John Deloney's show.
0:33.1	Taking your calls from all over the planet. Real people going through real challenges. Talking about your mental and emotional health and your marriage and whatever else you got going on. Your kids, your life. If you want to be on the show, go to John Deloney.com slash ask. A-S-K. And Kelly will holl it back girl because she is a hollip-back girl. And we'll get you on the show.
0:54.3	I am not.
0:56.8	That's a B-A-A-N-A-N-A-S.
1:01.9	I ain't no Hollaback girl.
1:03.6	If y'all only knew.
1:05.8	If y'all only knew.
1:07.7	It's got to Fresno, California and talk to Andrew.
1:10.3	What's up, Andrew?
1:12.6	John, how we doing? I'm doing all right, brother. How about you, man?
1:16.9	This is wild. It is wild. What's up with you?
1:20.9	A lot. I got a lot going on. I'm just, it's just kind of crazy how I ended up on this show.
1:29.4	I've been listening to you for a long time. Well, I'm glad you're here, man. It's not like you're sitting in your car. Yeah, can you hear me well? Oh yeah, I can hear you great. It sounds like you pulled over on the side of the road and you're just like at the end of the rope. You're doing good? I am at the end of my rope.
1:44.5	All right.
1:45.0	Let it rip, man.
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