Emotional abuse comes in many forms: withholding affection, withholding sex, withholding money, and the particularly torturous one – gaslighting. That’s when your partner tries to convince you that what you’re feeling, thinking and seeing, and that you know to be true, well isn’t. You’re told you’re too sensitive and all your suspicions are just a figment of your imagination. With no money, no family and no support, my guest survived this and more emotional abuse. Margot is so confident in what ...
Aug 01, 2023•34 min
What if your husband’s affair partner is not only obsessed with your husband, but she’s also obsessed with you! She does everything in her power to lure your husband — like “mini dates,” disguised as dog walks, calls and incessant texts. But she also wants to know you so badly, she infiltrates your home and your online world to get as close to you as she possibly can. It’s intrusive. It’s bizarre. It’s creepy. And it all happened to my guest whom we’ll call Lee. Joining Lee and me is Beth Miller...
Jul 25, 2023•41 min
What have I learned about infidelity in since starting Cheating: When Love Lies? I get asked this question a lot, and recently listeners have written in to ask my own views on infidelity. What do I consider cheating? Who cheats more men or women? Should everyone get a hall pass? These and so many other questions. So on this episode, I’ve asked my friend, actor and podcast host Brendan Fitzgibbons to interview me. Brendan is the host of the podcasts Spiritual Assholes and Hammered Heroes. Brendan...
Jul 18, 2023•25 min
It’s hard to think of a more demoralizing and debilitating situation than this: your husband has an affair, and his affair partner gets pregnant. But wait — it gets worse because you were pregnant around the same time his lover was pregnant. This is what happened to my guest Carly. Will Carly choose to save her marriage and embrace her husband’s lover’s child? What would you do? Find Beth at: www.freemarriageguide.com/ www.instagram.com/soulifywellness/ www.facebook.com/soulifywellness/ www.soul...
Jul 11, 2023•34 min
You’re having an affair and you think your kids don’t know it? Well think again. My guest today is an extraordinary young woman who wrote in to share her story after listening to an earlier Cheating: When Love Lies episode called “When Your Kids Find Out You Cheated.” In that episode a woman in her 50s, told us how in her teens, she discovered her mother was having an affair. This episode’s guest (we’ll call her Tina) lived a similar situation when she discovered her own father was having an aff...
Jul 04, 2023•29 min
So many times we hear how people, both women and men hesitate to leave a relationship even when bad things happen. But not my guest — award winning host of the podcasts “Dying For Sex” and “Near Death,”actress and singer Nikki Boyer. Nikki made a split second decision to leave her cheating boyfriend and never looked back. But she’s still talking about him, even today 20 years later. Ummm? Was she too hasty in her decision to leave or right to immediately cut her cheating boyfriend loose! @Nikkib...
Jun 27, 2023•40 min
Your husband is sending gifts to another woman who is a stripper. This situation raises so many questions. Does my husband frequent strip clubs? How extravagant are these gifts? Is this a full blown affair? Why did he choose a stripper over me? My guest today is a wife we’ll call Kathy who has lived this predicament. Joining Kathy and me is Beth Miller, owner of Soulify Wellness. Beth is an integral part of Kathy’s support system as she tries to comprehend her husband’s relationship with the str...
Jun 20, 2023•36 min
On this episode we have a panel discussion with two ladies whose marriages were scorched by infidelity along with their relationship coach Beth Miller. Beth’s 12 week program teaches women how to transform themselves in order to transform their lives and relationships. Using Beth’s Soulify Wellness method, my two guests, Anne and Marie explore memories and unprocessed emotions which are often the real reasons for the unhealthy patterns and communication issues in a marriage or partnership. Anne ...
Jun 13, 2023•53 min
You're a devoted husband with a loving, committed and intelligent wife. You want to family; a traditional American dream with a wife, kids, and a cozy home. But secretly you're in love with another man. You and he have an emotional, passionate and sexy love affair that you can't seem to put aside. For my guests today, Mark and David (not their real names or voices) this was their life, until more than a decade after they met, their lives were changed forever. See Privacy Policy at https://art19....
Jun 06, 2023•38 min
You’re a husband. A good guy, a strong provider and a very present dad. Despite that, your wife goes out and cheats on you. You struggle to hold your marriage together and somehow you manage to. But what happens if once again your wife’s behavior starts to get well, weird. Do you still trust her, investigate or leave? This episode’s guest, Harrison Scott Key answers this question in his new book called “How To Stay Married-The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told.” Find out what happens when a man o...
May 30, 2023•50 min
Does polyamory really make it possible for husbands and wives and committed partners with multiple lovers to have it all? Many say that having an affair makes them feel alive again, but with that exuberance comes deception, duplicity, and deceit. Hiding an affair from your spouse or partner is guilt provoking and burdensome. What if there was a way to maintain the stability of your committed partnership and the passion of your affair. What if you didn't have to choose between a spouse and lover ...
May 23, 2023•55 min
About 20 years into your marriage, you find out that your husband has been cheating on you with your neighbor. You and he go to therapy to try and fix the marriage. While you're devastated, you remain hopeful because you believe that therapy is going to help your communication, right the wrongs, and ultimately heal the marriage. Fast forward, and you find out the reason he wanted to go to therapy was to break up with you, ask you for a divorce, and leave you and your three children behind. Shoul...
May 16, 2023•34 min
On this episode called "Dangerous Liaisons: When Cheating Leads to Tragic Ends," powerhouse attorney Marilyn B. Chinitz, a partner at Blank Rome joins me to discuss several of her most shocking cases where infidelity led to: exposing the abuses of a morally depraved mother, unmasking a serial pedophile, and solving a brutal murder. Chinitz shares the stories behind these high profile cases as we explore how infidelity can escalate to unthinkable ends. Chinitz and I discuss the extent of emotiona...
May 09, 2023•42 min
Silence is the lethal injection in any relationship. It's more invective and hurtful than a barrage of expletives and a slamming door. In silence, you deny your partner the surety of knowing where you stand and giving them the option to do something about it. I've written a short fictional story called "Answer Me You Son Of A Bitch," that chronicles the agony of a married woman who is ghosted by her married lover for months and months, until one day fate brings a chance for her to win him back. ...
May 02, 2023•51 min
Is it possible to be a beautiful, accomplished woman in your 30s, and have never once cheated on a partner - not even a secret emotional flirtation? My guest Joanne Nosuchinsky, co-host of the show "Mornin' with Bill and Joanne" is that woman. Joanne has managed to remain faithful in her relationships even at times when a partner has cheated on her. Conversely, her very good friend and co-host Bill Schulz has slept with "many married women" (his words not mine). I plan on asking Bill how many is...
Apr 25, 2023•39 min
My guest whom we’ll call Alex, has a a history of philandering. With many indiscretions notched on his belt (I’ll let him tell you just how many) he has a vast experience with stepping outside of his marriage. He’s a nice guy, a religious guy, a hard worker, and a doting father. I wondered why with a seemingly untarnished profile such as his he would cheat on his wife. Alex can’t speak for all people, and he certainly can’t speak for straight women, but we did have a pretty insightful conversati...
Apr 18, 2023•26 min
This week, out of the vault, comes one of my favorite "Cheating: When Love Lies" episodes ever. On this episode, podcast royalty Adam Carolla shares his perspective on cheating and affairs. We talked about emotional versus physical affairs, what drives people to cheat, and the advice he'd give anyone who's thinking of having an affair. In true "Adam style" he uses spot on anecdotes and analogies to explain the complexities of cheating. Adam and I even did a little role play as the unhappy couple...
Apr 11, 2023•45 min
Is it true that men are so toxic that most end up betraying their partners? Has “toxic masculinity” driven men to cheat openly, often and without regret? Destin Gerek is a globally recognized leading voice in masculinity, sexuality, and personal empowerment. He is founder and CEO of The Evolved Masculine, a pioneering coaching and training company for men, and author of the book "The Evolved Masculine: Be the Man the World Needs, and The One She Craves.” According to Destin, we need a new type o...
Apr 04, 2023•48 min
Women are superior to men. There, I said it! But those aren’t my words, I’m quoting my guest Dr. Ricky Arenson, whose book titled “Women Are Superior To Men” is a witty, tell-it-like-it-is look at how women’s strength, passion, ability to multitask, foresight and emotional intelligence makes us well…superior! But can these attributes help women stave off a potential infidelity or cope more effectively if betrayal is discovered? Dr. Arenson and I talk about: the importance of sex in a marriage, i...
Mar 28, 2023•32 min
What if you're not sexting per se, but sending flirty DMs, texts and pictures to someone you're really attracted to, but your partner has no idea you're doing this? What if after yoga you and a hot hottie in the class go for smoothies, but you don't tell your partner, or admit to yourself that having smoothies with them is the reason you go to yoga in the first place. What if you have full on sex romps with someone other than your partner several times a year without your partner knowing? Are an...
Mar 21, 2023•50 min
We’re bringing back this popular episode that seeks to answer the question, what are today’s rules of romance? What does monogamy even mean anymore: two spouses committed to each other forever, or two partners committed to each other for life? According to my guest today, both of those paradigms are outdated. My guest contends that people today want to write their own rules about what it means to be married or in a committed long term relationship. Questions like: —Is it ok for my spouse to mast...
Mar 14, 2023•37 min
You think you’re in a committed relationship. You and your boyfriend are nesting with his daughter and living as a family in what feels like a dream. Then one day your boyfriend is killed in a tragic accident. Overcome with grief, you host his memorial only to find out that several of the women attending are also in a relationship with your boyfriend. This real life tragedy happened to country music sensation, Stephanie Quayle. Now Stephanie is sharing the story in her new album called On The Ed...
Mar 07, 2023•34 min
You have a 16 year affair. You share passionate days and evenings, off-the-charts sex and romantic getaways. You’re madly in love with your affair partner, but you refuse to leave your wife. What if all this seems completely normal to you because as a teenager your father had you lie to your mother in order to cover up his affair and keep his girlfriend a secret. How would that affect your feelings about cheating as an adult? I’m going to ask my guest, because this is exactly what happened to hi...
Feb 28, 2023•49 min
Jordan Harbinger, host of "The Jordan Harbinger Show" is one of the biggest names in podcasting and my guest on this episode. He's interviewed some of the greatest minds and celebrities of our time including: Mark Cuban, Ray Dalio, Malcolm Gladwell, T-Pain, and Matthew McConaughey. But on this episode of Cheating: When Love Lies, Jordan is the one answering the questions -lots of them, about infidelity and cheating. Considering his extensive background as a human dynamics expert, internationally...
Feb 21, 2023•52 min
Could you be paid to keep your affair silent? Would a big fat check keep you from exposing your affair when your married affair partner goes back to his wife? How much would it take to keep you quiet? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Feb 14, 2023•40 min
My guest Jamie Bronstein is the author of “MAN*ifesting: A Step-by-Step Guide to Attracting the Love That Is Meant for You.” This book will help you create the love life of your dreams. True love without cheating and betrayal. Jamie’s book is so relatable: she shares her very personal stories of how she moved from insecurity and self-doubt, and stepped into her truth and authenticity after suffering failed relationships — and before she finally manifested, the one. But sometimes the road to mani...
Feb 07, 2023•34 min
If ever there was something despicable yet common, rude and dismissive, juvenile and ignorant - it’s ghosting. There was a time when ghosting was hurtful to everyone. You texted or called, but never heard back. It was damaging. But ghosting has become so common that people who once were hurt and offended by it are now pulling those same disappearing acts. But can ghosting ever be good? Maybe in an affair ghosting is the only way out. On this episode I talk with writer, Alexandria Roswick who sha...
Jan 31, 2023•37 min
It's everyone woman's biggest nightmare. You find out your best friend is having an affair with your husband. In one fell swoop you lose your partner, and the person you believed was your ride or die bestie. You can't believe the betrayal. It seems completely inexplicable, or is it? You may never think this situation is justified, but maybe you can comprehend how it can happen although you won't ever sanction it. Laura (not her real name), my guest to today is a great mom who is killing it in bu...
Jan 24, 2023•32 min
What would you do if you found out your partner was cheating on you? Would you accept it, deny it, or seek revenge? How would you respond if a sexy someone tried to lure you into an affair? Could you resist or would you even want to? What if seeking out conflIct with your spouse could actually strengthen your relationship and save your marriage from infidelity... My guest Jayson Gaddis, renowned relationship coach, founder of The Relationship School, and author of "Getting To Zero: How To Work T...
Jan 17, 2023•47 min
Your marriage is in shambles; riddled with stories of cheating, drugs and alcohol. You and your spouse seek out a professional: someone who's going to guide you, and help lead your marriage back to solid ground. There are so many mental health care professionals that are heroes and saviors, but what happens when the therapist you and your spouse rely on betrays you? On this episode of Cheating: When Love Lies, find out why it's critical for every couple to vet their therapist, and find one they ...
Jan 10, 2023•55 min
