The Affair Recovery Podcast

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Ep. 027 | Facing the Fear of Intimacy After an Affair with Jay Stringer

2026-11-0901:05:56

After an affair, intimacy can feel like the last thing you want and the thing you ache for most. You still want to be known, and you also need to protect yourself. For a lot of couples, any step toward connection feels like a risk that isn't worth taking. In this episode, we sit down with Jay Stringer, licensed therapist and author of Desire, alongside Laurie Bryson, to talk about what intimacy truly is and how couples begin to write a new script after betrayal. In this episode: What intimacy...

Ep. 026 | Will They Cheat Again? Facing the Fear of Relapse After Infidelity

2026-10-2601:02:44

Will they cheat again? Once you’ve been betrayed, that question can follow you into every quiet moment, and the comment sections don’t help: once a cheater, always a cheater. If you’re the one who was unfaithful, you may be carrying a quieter version of the same fear: can I really change? This episode doesn’t pretend the fear is irrational. It takes it seriously and looks at what actually makes a marriage safe again. In this episode, our expert therapists talk honestly about relapse, what it ...

Bonus Ep. | Multiple Affairs, a Child, and a Marriage That Survived All of It with Cindy Beall

2026-10-1948:21

Cindy Beall's husband came home one morning and confessed to multiple affairs over two and a half years. Then came the final blow: one of the women was pregnant. Cindy went into a despair so deep she didn't know how she would keep living, let alone stay married. Twenty-five years later, she looks back on a marriage that not only survived but became the one she had always hoped for. In this episode, we sit down with Cindy, a pastor, author of Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken, and pas...

Ep. 025 | Understanding the Phases of Recovery: Is This Normal?

2026-10-1251:01

Should we just quit? What are we doing wrong? Why does it feel worse now than it did before? One minute you can't get close enough, the next a single look sends you both back to your corners, and you're left wondering if any of this is normal. In episode 25, Jeremy sits down with Rick, John and Laurie to answer the questions they hear most from couples in the thick of it, and to name the phases that feel like failure but aren't. In this episode: The push and pull where one of you reaches out...

Ep. 024 | How to Survive When Infidelity Isn't Your Only Crisis

2026-09-2801:11:58

The affair most likely isn’t the only thing you’re carrying. There may be an illness, a loss, a job that fell through, kids who need you, or years of quietly holding it all together, and now you’re being asked to heal a marriage on top of it. In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Marcus Earle, Clinical Director of Psychological Counseling Services with 38 years in behavioral health, to talk about what so many of you have written in about: when infidelity isn’t your only crisis, where do you e...

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