Latest Mariemurphymd Podcast Episodes
191. Are You Just Having a Midlife Crisis?
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - June 06, 2024 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsThere is a common belief that marriage should last a lifetime. So when somebody decides that they are dissatisfied with life as they know it, and engage in an infidelity situation as a result, it is commonly labeled as a midlife crisis. But what if waking up one morning and deciding you are diss...
190. The Magic Button
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - May 23, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsThe Magic Button that I’m diving deeper into this week is the one you wish you could push to answer all your questions about your infidelity situation. The one that, when you push it, your infidelity situation magically resolves in a way that you are delighted with, without you having to do much...
189. Scandal, Disgrace, and Redemption
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - May 09, 2024 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsPeople often freak out when infidelity occurs, even if it has pretty much zero impact on their lives. It gets treated as a big scandal that the "perpetrator" needs to redeem themselves from. Whether or not you buy into the idea that scandal, disgrace, and redemption are real things, other people...
188. When Your Affair Partner Leaves You for the Wrong Reasons
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - April 25, 2024 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsHave you ever found yourself in an affair situation with someone who is monogamously committed to someone else? For a while, your partner is pretty sure they want to leave that relationship and pursue a non-affair relationship with you. They share their intentions to leave their partner for week...
187. It's Okay to Change Your Mind
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - April 11, 2024 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsHow often do you make a decision that you think you’re happy with, then doubt yourself and fear it was the wrong one because you feel so many mixed emotions about it? When you make a major decision in your life, about your infidelity situation or otherwise, you are most likely going to have mixe...
186. Why I Do the Work I Do (Part 2)
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - March 28, 2024 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsJoin me for part two of "Why I Do the Work I Do" as I share the turning point that led me to become a relationship coach specializing in non-judgmental assistance to people engaging in infidelity, and exactly what it took for me to get here. I’m picking up where I left off last week and sharing ...
185. Why I Do the Work I Do (Part 1)
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - March 21, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsAs you may be aware, “non-judgmental infidelity coach” is not a common job description that exists out there in the world, at least not to my knowledge. This thing I do and the angle I take is pretty unique, and I am dedicated to offering non-judgmental guidance to people actively engaging in an...
185: Why I Do the Work I Do (Part 1)
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - March 21, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsAs you may be aware, “non-judgmental infidelity coach” is not a common job description that exists out there in the world, at least not to my knowledge. This thing I do and the angle I take is pretty unique, and I am dedicated to offering non-judgmental guidance to people actively engaging in an...
184. The Point of Resolving Your Infidelity Situation (Part 2)
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - March 14, 2024 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsAt some point, the drawbacks of your infidelity situation can start to outweigh the benefits, and if this happens for you, you may want to start thinking about taking a conscious, deliberate approach to resolving your infidelity situation in a way you feel good about. Yes it might feel hard at f...
183. When Your Affair is Over, You May be Bored
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - March 07, 2024 06:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsIf you experience boredom after you’ve stopped engaging in infidelity, you may not know what to do with yourself, and you are NOT alone. Post-infidelity boredom is a thing, but fortunately for you, I have some recommendations to help you deal with it. In this episode, I share why you might fin...
182. Why Considering Non-Monogamy Might Not be Helpful
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - February 29, 2024 06:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsIn this week’s episode, I talk about why exploring non-monogamy COULD be a way to resolve your infidelity situation… and when why exploring non-monogamy may NOT going to be an effective way to resolve your infidelity situation. As non-monogamy becomes a more and more legitimate way to configure ...
181. How to Tell Someone You've Cheated on Them
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - February 22, 2024 06:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsBefore initiating the conversation with your partner about your affair, there are some things you need to be clear on. In today’s episode, I discuss how to tell your partner about your affair and provide tips on how to approach this conversation in two different kinds of circumstances. Whe...
180. When Your Affair Partner Has an Agenda for You
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - February 15, 2024 06:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsIs your affair partner invested in helping you leave your committed relationship? In today’s episode, I explain the importance of understanding the extent to which your focus is on your affair partner’s desires and how to be aware if the decisions you’re making are for yourself. Even if yo...
179. How Long Should You Wait for Your Affair Partner to Leave Their Marriage?
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - February 08, 2024 06:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday, I look at the question of how long you should wait for your affair partner to leave their marriage. Maybe you don’t want to set a timeline for your partner and prefer to wait indefinitely for them to leave. Regardless of your situation, I guide you in making the decision that is right for...
178. When You Have an Agenda for Your Affair Partner
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - February 01, 2024 06:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsToday, I’m talking to those of you who have an agenda for your affair partner. Even though you mean well, the truth is that you can only manage your own business. It’s important to let your affair partner figure things out for themselves, and today, I’ll explain why. Understanding what you...
177. What It’s Like to Work with Me
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - January 25, 2024 06:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsWhether you've been a dedicated listener for a while or have just recently tuned in to the podcast, you might be curious about what it's like to work together. In this episode, I share what it's like to receive my coaching and how it can benefit you, regardless of the type of infidelity situatio...
176. Fear
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - January 18, 2024 06:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsThe feeling of fear is one of the things that can make infidelity situations seem so hard to deal with. There are a LOT of things that might seem scary within your infidelity situation. Will life as you know it come to an end if you choose to pursue a relationship that began as an affair? Will y...
175. The Right Tools for the Job
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - January 11, 2024 06:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsAre you ready to make some changes but don't know where to start? This week, I share some helpful tools to help you create change and resolve your infidelity situation. You might need to do things you’ve never done before, and that’s okay. I explain how the sooner you find a way to address...
174. Believing in Your Capacity to Change
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - January 04, 2024 06:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsWith a new year beginning, there's a feeling of change in the air for some. And maybe that change has to do with your infidelity situation. In this episode, I explore how to take charge of change in your infidelity situation, the reasons we sometimes avoid change, and why our mindset is the numb...
173. The Easy Hard Paradox
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - December 28, 2023 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsI believe that “difficulty” is not an absolute truth or fact but rather a matter of our thinking. In this episode, I discuss the many ways we can think differently about difficult situations. I revisit my concept of the “think, feel, act” cycle and explore how you can reshift your thinking aroun...
172: Missing Your Affair Partner
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - December 21, 2023 06:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsOften, people dealing with an affair ending come up against disenfranchised grief and finding forced validity in their experience. In today’s episode, I discuss how to deal with missing your affair partner in a way that supports your feelings and reasons, regardless of your support system or sit...
171. The Extreme Highs and Lows of Infidelity
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - December 14, 2023 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsOften, our infidelity situations come with extreme highs and lows. In this episode, I talk about that emotional rollercoaster and how the extreme ups and downs can feel like a really big deal. I discuss different situations where these ups and downs can occur and how handling this rollercoaster ...
170. Planning to Break up with Someone After the Holidays
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - December 07, 2023 06:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsHolidays or not, there’s never a perfect time to break up with someone. You may have been planning to break up with your partner, but then Thanksgiving rolled around, now Christmas, and then it's New Year's…I get it, and it's okay to choose to wait. But how will you go through with your choice w...
169. Integrating Your Affair Partner Into Your Family
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - November 30, 2023 06:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsThe holidays are fast approaching, and you might be in the midst of figuring out your family’s plans. More importantly, you may be figuring out how to integrate your former affair partner, now partner, into your family’s holiday plans. In this episode, I explore how to prepare for the dif...
168. The Gifts of Your Infidelity Situation
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - November 23, 2023 06:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsIn this episode, I share a lengthy list of questions that you can answer to help find the gifts within your infidelity situation. It would be silly to act like you’re not getting something positive out of it, so why not acknowledge what that something is? Answer these questions honestly, ...
167. Starting Over After a Breakup
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - November 16, 2023 06:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsBreakups are an amazing opportunity to start over. You can be feeling sad, hurt, and angry, while also stepping into a new chapter of your life. In this episode, I discuss how you can grow forward while still processing a breakup from the past. I talk about reframing the story of your brea...
166. The Hell of Being Broken up With
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - November 09, 2023 06:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsIf someone you love breaks up with you, it may hurt like hell. If a relationship that you hoped would continue comes to an end, you may be hurt, devastated, and possibly very pissed off. And that’s totally fair and totally reasonable. Sometimes the only possible response to being broke...
165. Ultimatums
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - November 02, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsIt’s reasonable to have hopes, wishes, and desires in any relationship. However, trying to coerce, cajole, or threaten your partner into getting what you want is never the solution. Whether you feel pulled to issue your infidelity partner an ultimatum, or find yourself on the receiving end of on...
164. Cheating On Your Affair Partner
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - October 26, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsAre you worried about cheating on your affair partner? Is that even possible? This is a real dilemma that my clients bring up, so if you can relate, you are definitely not alone. What counts as cheating in this scenario can vary from person to person. However, there are three super common ...
163. Approaches to a Breakup: Breadcrumbs vs Bombshells
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - October 19, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsBreaking up with partners is something most people lack experience in. Whether your breakup is the result of infidelity, you’re breaking up with an affair partner, or you’ve just decided that you no longer want to be in a relationship, this episode is for you. Dr. Marie Murphy is discussin...
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