When Your Cheating Spouse Says, "It Didn't Mean Anything"

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:29.8	There was an article in the New York Times, sort of a Q&A.
0:34.2	The magazine has an ethicist columnist. I like that. I would have liked to have done that.
0:41.6	It's a very cool concept. The ethical, which is not necessarily moral or legal. It's interesting.
0:52.6	It's a different approach totally unemotional
0:56.0	anyway the question was if you screwed around on your wife or you screwed
1:03.5	around on your husband you get caught and you say it didn't mean. Is that a good way to handle it? Is that a good way to handle it?
1:17.6	I mean, the question went on for one, two, three, four, five, it went on for a long space and it
1:22.8	talked about music and I couldn't even follow the question. I was impressed that the author here could follow the question and knew the music.
1:33.9	But basically the question is, you got caught, you told your spouse, it didn't mean
1:39.2	anything.
1:40.5	And is that supposed to make anything better?
1:45.5	And the answer is,
1:47.4	hell no, unless somebody is so dependent on you
1:50.9	that they'll use any excuse to stay.
1:56.6	See, they don't say that part.
1:58.5	This is where Mother Laura comes in.
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