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Your Secret Is Safe With Me — 237 episodes

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237: Change Can Be (EXTREMELY) Strange

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236: Taking the Agony Out of Major Life Decisions

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235: Emotional Affairs

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234: Resisting the Urge to Contact Your (Ex) Affair Partner

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233: How to Have Better Sex (Part 3)

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232: How to Have Better Sex (Part 2)

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231: How to Have Better Sex (Part 1)

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230: When Your Infidelity Situation Takes Over Your Life

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229: Radical Un-Shaming with David Bedrick

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228: Podcast Greatest Hits: When You Love Your Partner and You Still Want to Cheat

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227: Love, Sex, and Romance: What Do You Really Want?

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226: Recovering From a "Bad Decision"

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225: Drunken One-Night Stands

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224: Going All-In On Your Desires

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223: Whose Job Is It to Change the Conversation About Infidelity?

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222: Dating for the First Time in a Long Time

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221: Why I Work with Affair Couples as Individuals

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220: Vacillating Between Two Relationships

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219: Thriving After Infidelity: Michael's Story

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218: Creating the Future vs. Predicting the Future

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217: The Perils of Telling the Truth

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216: When Your Affair Partner Breaks Your Heart

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215: Secretly Dating While You're Married

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214: What If You Make the "Wrong Decision" About Your Relationship(s)?

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213: Beginnings and Endings

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212: Choosing Between Two Good Things

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211. Dealing With Your Personal Problems When the World Is on Fire

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210. Sex Work and Infidelity Part 2

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209. Astrology and Infidelity with Karen Hawkwood (Part 2)

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208. Sex Work and Infidelity Part 1

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207. Astrology and Infidelity with Karen Hawkwood

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206. Where Do You Want to Be a Year from Now?

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205. What Can You Give Yourself More Credit For?

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204. The Challenges of Infidelity During the Holidays

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203. Your Money or Your Freedom

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202. Breaking Up with Your Affair Partner

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201. High-Conflict Breakups

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200. Nostalgia

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199. You Are Worthy of Acceptance

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198. What Do You Owe Your Ex-Affair Partner's Spouse?

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197. Affairs with Old Lovers

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196. What Are You Tolerating?

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195. Affair Relationships Can Last a Lifetime

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194. Dealing With Doubt

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193. What Do You Owe a Relationship Before You Can Decide to Leave It?

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192. When Will I Stop Fantasizing About My Ex-Affair Partner?

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191. Are You Just Having a Midlife Crisis?

48

190. The Magic Button

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189. Scandal, Disgrace, and Redemption

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188. When Your Affair Partner Leaves You for the Wrong Reasons

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187. It's Okay to Change Your Mind

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186. Why I Do the Work I Do (Part 2)

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185. Why I Do the Work I Do (Part 1)

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184. The Point of Resolving Your Infidelity Situation (Part 2)

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183. When Your Affair is Over, You May be Bored

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182. Why Considering Non-Monogamy Might Not be Helpful

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181. How to Tell Someone You've Cheated on Them

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180. When Your Affair Partner Has an Agenda for You

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179. How Long Should You Wait for Your Affair Partner to Leave Their Marriage?

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178. When You Have an Agenda for Your Affair Partner

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177. What It's Like to Work with Me

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176. Fear

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175. The Right Tools for the Job

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174. Believing in Your Capacity to Change

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173. The Easy Hard Paradox

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172: Missing Your Affair Partner

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171. The Extreme Highs and Lows of Infidelity

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170. Planning to Break up with Someone After the Holidays

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169. Integrating Your Affair Partner Into Your Family

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168. The Gifts of Your Infidelity Situation

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167. Starting Over After a Breakup

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166. The Hell of Being Broken up With

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165. Ultimatums

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164. Cheating On Your Affair Partner

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163. Approaches to a Breakup: Breadcrumbs vs Bombshells

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162. Becoming More Decisive

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161. How Do I Know if I'm Being Reckless?

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160. Cheating On Your Fiancé

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159. You Can't Eat the Whole Elephant at Once

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158. Forgiving Yourself & Forgiving Others

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157. You Might Be an Asshole

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156. Nurturing a Long-Term Affair (Part 2)

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155. Nurturing a Long-Term Affair (Part 1)

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154. Being Your Own Steward

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153. Your Questions Answered (Part 5)

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152. Seeing Your Ex-Affair Partner in Social Settings

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151. Your Questions Answered (Part 4)

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150. Your Questions Answered (Part 3)

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149. Your Questions Answered (Part 2)

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148. Your Questions Answered (Part 1)

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147. You Can't Shame Yourself into Changing

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146. Loving Your Decisions

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145. Don't Wait to Get Caught

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144. Your One Wild and Precious Life

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143. Treating Your Infidelity Situation as a Life Project

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142. Trying to Get Back to the Way a Relationship Used to Be

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141. Contentment That Isn't Dependent Upon a Relationship

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140. Loneliness

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139. Comparing Your Spouse to Your Affair Partner

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138. Telling a New Partner About Your History with Infidelity

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137. If You Don't Feel Guilty About Cheating

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136. If You've Been Stuck in Your Infidelity Situation for a While

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135. When Your Infidelity Situation is Brand New

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134. Cheating in Open Relationships

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133. Don't Make Your Partner Break Up with You

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132. Stop Minimizing the Importance of Sex

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131. Breaking Up with Someone You've Been Cheating On

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130. Implicit Permission to Cheat

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129. Cultivating Clarity and Certainty (Part 2)

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128. Cultivating Clarity and Certainty

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127. The Limits of Other People's Advice

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126. Regret is Optional

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125: Privately Grieving the End of an Affair

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124: Dealing with Other People's Discomfort (Part 2)

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123: Abundance vs. Scarcity of Love

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122: Yes, People Can Be Total Jerks Sometimes

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121: How Good Can You Stand It?

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120: Managing Your Worries

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119: Explaining How a Relationship Began

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118: The Intimacy of a Breakup

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117: Jealousy

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116: Uniquely Difficult Situations in Life

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115: From an Affair to a Non-Affair Relationship

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114: Questioning Common Beliefs About Marriage

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113. Wanting Something and Not Having It Yet

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112. Being a Human Feels Terrible Sometimes

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111. The Price of Convenience

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110. What Do You Owe Someone You've Cheated On?

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109. You Don't HAVE to Make a Decision

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108. Why Do People Cheat?

131

107. Is Monogamy (Un)Natural?

132

106. Ask Yourself the Right Questions

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105. It May Be Time to Chuck Your Checklist

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104. The Courage to Make Changes and Choices

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103. Dealing with a Vindictive Affair Partner

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102. You Got Caught Cheating

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101. What Physical Pain Teaches Us About Emotional Pain

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100. The Point of Resolving Your Infidelity Situation

139

99. What Do You Expect Out of a Romantic Relationship?

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98. Stop Telling Yourself These Three Things Right Now

141

97. Re-Engaging in a Relationship After an Affair, Part 2

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96. When You Leave Your Marriage but Your Affair Partner Doesn't

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95. Dealing With a Needy Affair Partner

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94. Is It Cheating if Your Spouse Has Alzheimer's?

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93. Allowing Yourself To Want What You Want

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92. Holding Our Desires Lightly With Katy Dion

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91. The Intensity of a New Affair

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90. Should I Go to Couple's Therapy?

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89. Does Having an Affair Doom Your Marriage to Failure?

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88. When Bad Sh*t Happens

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87. Relationships, Divorce, and Money With Jessie Susannah Karnatz

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86. When your Affair Partner Ghosts You

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85. Past vs. Future Focus

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84. Making Plans for the Future With Your Affair Partner

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83. Boundaries with Melissa Hite

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82. How to Cheat and Keep Your Sanity Intact

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81. Conflict and Compatibility

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80. It's Not Your Partner's Job To Make You Happy

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79. Being Honest With Yourself

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78. Lying About Infidelity

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77. Infidelity, Shame, and Perfectionism

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76. Regret

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75. Perfectionism and Relationships

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74. Dealing With Guilt and Shame

165

73. What To Say When You Break Up With Someone

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72. Preparing for a Breakup

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71. When You Love Your Partner And You Still Want To Cheat

168

70. What Does It Mean To Be Selfish?

169

69. Making Changes In 2022

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68. Infidelity and Death

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67. Choosing To Leave A Good-Enough Marriage for Your Affair Partner

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66. Infidelity and the Holidays, Part Four: Dealing with Nostalgia and Confusion

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65. Infidelity and the Holidays, Part Three: Putting off Decisions

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64. Infidelity and the Holidays, Part Two: Being the Other Person

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63. Infidelity and the Holidays, Part One

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62. Making Difficult Decisions

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61. Sex, Unhappiness, and Compromises in Marriage

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60. Dealing with Other People's Feelings

179

59. Is the Grass Always Greener?

180

58. Financial Fears, Divorce, and Infidelity

181

57. Re-Engaging in a Relationship After an Affair

182

56. Cutting off Contact With Your Affair Partner

183

55. Contemplating Leaving Your Marriage

184

54. Embracing Your Contradictions

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53. Divorce and Your Relationship with Your Kids with Abigail Wald

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52. Dealing with Other People's Opinions, Part Three

187

51. Dealing with Other People's Opinions, Part Two

188

50. The Joys and Sorrows of Adultery with Mona Lisa

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49. ​​In Defense of "New Relationship Energy"

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48. Forgiving Yourself

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47. Being the "Other Person," Part Three

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46. Dealing With Other People's Opinions, Part One

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45. Being the "Other Person," Part Two

194

44. Moving Beyond Blame with Karilyn Ivers

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43. Being the "Other Person," Part One

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42. The Mindset of Pleasure with Danielle Savory

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41. Clarifying What You Want in a Relationship

198

40. Blow Your House Down with Gina Frangello

199

39. Healing from Heartbreak with Dorothy Johnson

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38. Sexuality, Religion, and Shame with Melissa Hite

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37. Discomfort, Drama, and Infidelity

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36. Good Enough Sex with Dr. Barry McCarthy

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35. Changes and Choices in Relationships with Yael Haklai-Neagu

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34. Mindfulness, Music, and Relationships with Dr. Richard Gold

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33. How to Deal with Missing Your Affair Partner

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32. Money and Your Relationships with Christine Luken

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31. A Happy Life in an Open Relationship with Susan Wenzel

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30. Affair Recovery for Couples with Idit Sharoni

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29. How to Have a Secret Affair

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28. When You're the One Who Cheats with Dr. Tammy Nelson

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27. Recovering from Trauma in Relationships with Altagracia M. Felix

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26. Having an Affair to Save a Marriage

213

25. Financial Infidelity with Adam Kol

214

24. All About Ashley Madison with Isabella Mise

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23. Deciding to End a Commitment

216

22. The Beauty of Conflict for Couples with CrisMarie Campbell and Susan Clarke

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21. Shameless Sex with Amy Baldwin

218

20. If You've Cheated on Your Partner, Do You Have to Tell Them?

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19. Divorce and Your Money with Shawn Leamon

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18. Talking to Your Kids About Infidelity

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17. New Year's Resolutions with Dr. Jonathan Horowitz

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16. How to Have Difficult Conversations with Your Kids with Abigail Wald

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15. Relationships and the Tarot with Courtney Moore

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14. So You Were Cheated On—Now What?

225

13. A Private Investigator's Perspective on Infidelity with Art Tilis

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12. Legal Implications of Infidelity with Rodrigo Dias

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11. Personal Stories of Infidelity with Suzannah Weiss

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10. Polyamory with Magenta Brooks

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9. Debunking Myths About Infidelity

230

8. So You're Having an Affair—Now What?

231

7. Nonviolent Communication with Joyce Swaving

232

6. Historical Perspectives on Marriage with Dr. Devon Smith

233

5. Decision-Making and Your Power to Choose

234

4. Safe Sex Basics with Lisa Bayani

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2. Emotions 101

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3. Emotions, Relationships, and the Body

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1. An Introduction to the New Podcast