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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey friends, it's Day Niche and you're listening

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Speaker 1: to the Rebuilding US Marriage podcast. Have you ever experienced

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Speaker 1: a time when your spouse was unfaithful and you find

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Speaker 1: yourself paranoid. Maybe you go through their phone, you go

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Speaker 1: through their emails, You're constantly trying to dig up information

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Speaker 1: because you just do not trust that they are fully

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Speaker 1: on the up and up. That is what this conversation

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Speaker 1: is all about. Today. I had a listener right in,

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Speaker 1: and if you've been listening to the show for a while,

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Speaker 1: you might remember when I used to do these Q

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Speaker 1: and A episodes. It was when anyone, whether you're a listener,

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Speaker 1: past client, anyone could write in a question about their

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Speaker 1: marriage and I would answer it live on the show. Well,

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Speaker 1: I haven't done one of these in quite a while,

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Speaker 1: but I got a question that I thought would be

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Speaker 1: very instructive for you. And when I say you, I

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Speaker 1: mean you who have dealt with infidelity in the past,

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Speaker 1: You who have trust issues in your marriage, You who

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Speaker 1: have felt betrayed in your marriage. You who find yourself

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Speaker 1: wanting to trust your spouse. Maybe it's not in fidelity,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's something else, but you want to trust your

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Speaker 1: spouse but you just don't seem to be able to

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Speaker 1: move past what was done. So I'm going to read

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Speaker 1: this question to you and FYI, even though this wasn't

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Speaker 1: submitted as a listener question, I did reach out to

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Speaker 1: question because I believe that it's going to be really

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Speaker 1: So she writes, Hey, Dana, I love your podcast. I've

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Speaker 1: been listening for a few months, and I feel like

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Speaker 1: I've probably listened to at least fifty episodes so far.

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Speaker 1: I also enrolled in your infidelity intens of course, I

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Speaker 1: found out that my husband cheated last year, and I

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Speaker 1: just can't seem to move past it. I'm praying, working

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Speaker 1: on forgiving him, and just trying to pick up the pieces.

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Speaker 1: He seems very sorry most days, but some days he

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Speaker 1: seems to just retreat. He'll isolate and stay to himself,

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Speaker 1: which triggers me. Of course, I find myself always wanting

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Speaker 1: to see what's really going on. I haven't found anything new,

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Speaker 1: but I still can't shake the feeling that something is

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Speaker 1: not right. I'm hoping you can help me to know

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Speaker 1: the difference between being truly concerned versus being paranoid. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for all you do, and I hope to hear

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Speaker 1: from you soon. All Right, I love this question so

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Speaker 1: much because I can relate. Listen. I remember when Sean

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Speaker 1: and I were really working through our whole infidelity, right,

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Speaker 1: And if you don't know our story, go back and

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Speaker 1: listen to some of the episodes that I've done on

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Speaker 1: After the Affair. I have a whole series called After

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Speaker 1: the Affair and another series on infidelity specifically. But I

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Speaker 1: remember when I was healing from sewn infidelities and the

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Speaker 1: whole going through the phone thing was an addiction. It

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Speaker 1: really was. It was an addiction, and it is an addiction.

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Speaker 1: Not only is it an addiction, but it is also

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Speaker 1: re traumatizing you every time you go through that phone.

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Speaker 1: I want you to imagine yourself if this is your issue, right,

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Speaker 1: if you find yourself going through your spouse's stuff all

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Speaker 1: the time. You know how your heart races when you're

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Speaker 1: but there's something that is happening to you where your

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Speaker 1: you're nervous, right, there's a level of stress that comes

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Speaker 1: also re traumatizing yourself because you're continuing to live in

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Speaker 1: the past of what happened. You're trying to find evidence

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Speaker 1: to support the feeling that you have, which is I

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Speaker 1: cannot trust my spouse. And let me just be real

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Speaker 1: clear with you. If your husband and I'm speaking to

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Speaker 1: our listener here, if your husband just cheated last year,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna trust him in a year. You know,

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Speaker 1: It's not linear. You're gonna have ups, you're gonna have downs.

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Speaker 1: responding to the trauma that we have endured. So when

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Speaker 1: really is it's self preservation. You're trying to protect yourself.

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Speaker 1: That's not true, because if God forbid, your husband is

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Speaker 1: you're going to still be traumatized, just like you would

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Speaker 1: be if he told you. So, going through the even

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Speaker 1: though it seems like I'm protecting myself, I get to

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Speaker 1: find out the real deal, right, I'm really in the

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Speaker 1: We tell ourselves these things because it helps us to

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Speaker 1: feel better about what we're doing. But you're really betraying

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Speaker 1: So how am I going to find out unless I

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Speaker 1: not going to be sloppy enough to leave it in

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Speaker 1: whole infidelity situation. When your spouse is caught, they then know, okay,

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Speaker 1: marriages have been restored after infidelity. Yes, even after infidelity.

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Speaker 1: Betrayal hurts, it's hard. It's a long process to rebuild trust,

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Speaker 1: we're back. We're talking about what to do when you

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