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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
His wife kind of made a pass at me, and we have been in an affair now for the last eight months or so.
You're not calling me to ask, like, oh, God, I've blown up my life and my wife's life. That's not why you're calling. You're calling to ask, is this true love or not? What's going on? What's going on? This is John with the Dr. John Deloney Show. Hope you... Have a lot of joy in your life today. It may not be the best day of your life.
You may not be super happy, but I hope that you're where you need to be doing the things you need to be doing to help create the life that you want to be living. Man, on this show, I sit with hurting people trying to figure out what's the next right move in these crazy lives we're trying to live in these crazy times.
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If you want to be on the show, give me a buzz at 1-844-693-3291 or go to johndeloney.com slash ask A-S-K. Let's go right down the street here in Nashville, Tennessee and talk to Will. What's up, Will? How we doing, man? Hey, John. How's it going? I'm doing all right, brother. What's up?
Hey, so I got a quick question for you here. I kind of got myself in a little bit of predicament, and so I'll just get right into it. My wife and I, we've been married for about five years, and in that time frame, I was able to reconnect with a friend of mine that I had made, a male friend of mine that I had made after high school and whatnot.
Started to kind of hang out with him and found out kind of through hanging out with him that his wife kind of made a pass at me. And we have been in an affair now for the last probably decade.
eight months or so um we've obviously talked about uh just about everything under the sun and i guess i'm trying to figure out um you know if i am i interested in this person um or is it just the thrill of having an affair and and doing something obviously that you know you're not supposed to do um and so i'm trying to trying to figure out how to figure that out um
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Chapter 2: How did Will end up in an affair with his friend's wife?
And he might say, actually, I think it'd be awesome if my parents homeschooled him. Well, then that's a conversation y'all need to have.
Mm-hmm.
Right? And then I think y'all need to come back and circle back and say, here is our caretaker expectations. This is going to be different. We're getting them on a new schedule. And then – because, again, you guys also want the best of both worlds. You want them to do it exactly as you want to do it, but you want free childcare a couple days a week too. For sure.
And so sometimes these boundaries cost you financially when your in-laws say, well, screw you then. No young kids are going to lecture us on how to raise a baby, right? And that happens. Yeah.
And I know we've been looking into possibly doing like a preschool program a couple of days a week, you know, morning time from like eight to 12 or eight to one or something like that. And I know I mentioned it and there was kind of like this, like, no, like we love having him.
And, you know, but I think it's beneficial for especially he hasn't been around other kids like in a daycare type setting. like, I think it's important for his own, you know, emotional development to be around other kids. Then, you know, I think that that kind of got overlooked in the, in the fact of, but wait, no, we want him like, yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I guess I just like socially, like if, if a young child is surrounded by, uh, sturdy, regulated, caring adults, their socialization is going to be fine.
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Chapter 3: What advice does Dr. John Delony give to someone having an affair?
Okay.
And y'all try to be polite so that if something goes wrong, both of y'all can say, I didn't do fill in the blank. I didn't yell. I didn't hit anybody. I didn't punch a hole through the concrete. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't. And so it's two teams playing football and both of y'all are sitting your defense out and nobody will hike the ball.
Yeah.
And then one, one of you just gets so mad, like let's play ball. And then there's like, well, you know, and then like I get, and then, and then it's like, I just, I want to go, I want to go be with somebody that will play offense.
Yeah.
And I want to go be able to play offense sometimes. So circling all the way back, take him off the table. I want to talk to you. Who told you the safest thing for you to do is just to be quiet?
I always grew, I grew up that way. And it was a very, unless you're spoken to, you know, you don't really say what you need to say. Yeah. So, yeah, I think I've just, I've always grown up with, especially, you know, from my father, that was his big, you know, unless you're spoken to, your opinion doesn't really matter.
So have you heard me say on the show, the things that kept you safe as a kid will destroy your adult relationships?
Yeah, that's definitely where I'm at right now.
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