Should I Let My Wife Have Male Friends?

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

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

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0	Big news.
0:02.7	New dates for money and marriage getaway just dropped for Valentine's Day weekend, 2026.
0:08.8	Get tickets at ramsysolutions.com slash events to get away with your spouse in Nashville, Tennessee.
0:20.6	About a year and a half ago, my wife had an emotional affair.
0:25.3	Did she ever sit down and say, I feel abandoned?
0:28.3	He cried to me for probably a year.
0:30.5	Okay.
0:31.1	Where were you?
0:31.8	I didn't intentionally not hear it at the time.
0:33.9	I just thought I was doing what a man's supposed to do.
0:36.4	A man's supposed to listen to his crying wife.
0:44.3	What up? What's up? What's up? This is John with the Dr. John Deloney's show.
0:48.6	Taking your calls from all over the planet. Real people going through real challenges.
0:53.4	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 hollaback girl because she is a hollaback girl. And we'll get you on the show. I am not. That's a B-A-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-S. I ain't no holobat girl. If y'all only knew. If y'all only knew. It's got to Fresno, California, and talk to Andrew. What's up, Andrew?
1:29.2	John, how we doing?
1:30.5	I'm doing all right, brother.
1:31.1	How about you, man?
1:33.4	This is wild.
1:34.5	It is wild.
1:35.2	What's up with you?
1:37.2	A lot.
1:40.7	I got a lot going on.
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