While We Were Separated, My Husband Fell for Someone Else

The Dr. John Delony Show

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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0:00.0	So about four years ago, my husband and I were separated for about eight months, but within the time that I had asked him for a divorce and signing the papers, it was about six weeks. He had developed feelings for someone else.
0:19.2	Well, I mean, it sounds like you're way more his mother than his wife.
0:28.8	What's going on?
0:29.9	What's going on?
0:30.4	This is John with the Dr. John Deloney show.
0:33.8	Coming to you live from Nashville, except you're listening to this and not live.
0:37.6	So hopefully they edit out the parts where I'm not very good at this job.
0:41.1	But for the last 20-plus years, I've been sitting with hurting people who are trying to figure out what's the next right move in my life.
0:47.5	And that's what this show is.
0:48.4	Real people going through tough times, trying to figure out what's the next right move.
0:52.2	And I don't know anybody right now nobody
0:55.4	um people who are struggling financially people are struggling emotionally struggling with their
1:01.2	kids struggling with politics struggling with like their marriages i don't know anybody who's not
1:06.3	sitting in it trying to figure out what's the next right move and so if you want to be on this show
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1:17.5	they'll build up build out the show and hopefully we'll have you on love to talk to you let's go out to
1:23.3	atlanta georgia and talk to melissa hey it hey Melissa what's up? Hi, Dr. John. So about four years ago,
1:31.1	my husband and I were separated for about eight months. And during that time, we got separated
1:39.7	because I wasn't seeing any changed behaviors. And upon signing some papers to actually get a divorce, I wanted to have one last question
1:49.2	with him or one last conversation just to get more clarity and understanding.
1:55.1	And that actually led to us reconciling.
1:58.2	But within the time that I had asked him for a divorce and signing the papers,
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