Latest Mariemurphymd Podcast Episodes
162. Becoming More Decisive
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - October 12, 2023 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsYour time and energy are limited, and when you don’t make decisions quickly and effectively, you’re wasting both. Infidelity situations are often fraught with difficult decisions, and people have real trouble deciding what they want. Sometimes people think there’s value in taking time to think t...
161. How Do I Know if I’m Being Reckless?
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - October 05, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsThe problem with dismissing your desires because of potentially reckless outcomes is not going to help you decide what you really want. If you are faced with wanting to make a decision about your infidelity and you’re worried that it may lead to a reckless outcome, this episode is for you. ...
160. Cheating On Your Fiancé
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - September 28, 2023 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsWhy does cheating on your fiancé present a particularly complex situation? Of course, not everybody puts marriage and monogamy together, but if you’re formally planning to marry someone and you’re engaging in some sexual or romantic behavior that your fiancé wouldn’t be happy to find out about, ...
159. You Can’t Eat the Whole Elephant at Once
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - September 21, 2023 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsWhen you can break down your infidelity situation into individual worries, questions, hopes, decisions, and actions, you can start deciding what you want to do one piece at a time. However, when you’re in an agitated state, breaking your experience down becomes incredibly challenging. Disc...
158. Forgiving Yourself & Forgiving Others
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - September 14, 2023 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsThis week’s episode is all about learning how to forgive yourself when you fall short of your own expectations, and forgiving others when things don’t work out the way you’d hoped or expected. Forgiveness in this form is powerful, especially when negotiating an infidelity situation. However, the...
157. You Might Be an Asshole
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - September 07, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsIf you’re in the midst of an infidelity situation, there are plenty of opportunities for you to think of yourself as an asshole. Humans tend to be terrified of the idea that other people won’t like them, but they’re particularly terrified that the people they love might think they’re a total ass...
156. Nurturing a Long-Term Affair (Part 2)
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - August 31, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsThis week, Marie is going in-depth on the things for which you and your affair partner need to take collective responsibility, and the things your affair partner has to take sole responsibility for themselves. Discover the areas where you and your affair partner need to be on the same page...
155. Nurturing a Long-Term Affair (Part 1)
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - August 24, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsIn any relationship, affair or otherwise, there are things you and your partner can deal with together, and there are some things that you or your partner can only address as individuals. Today, you need to consider that the best thing you can do for yourself and your affair relationship is to b...
154. Being Your Own Steward
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - August 17, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsIt’s common for people to believe that they themselves don’t have the ultimate power to make decisions. Maybe they don’t think they have permission to choose, they shouldn’t want what they want, or they need to consider others before deciding. If this sounds familiar, it’s time to start being yo...
153. Your Questions Answered (Part 5)
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - August 10, 2023 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsHow can you remain friends after an intimate affair? Why do people cheat in the first place? How might the presence of children factor into your decision-making about leaving your relationship for your affair partner? Are you worried about the financial damage of leaving your marriage for your a...
152. Seeing Your Ex-Affair Partner in Social Settings
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - August 03, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsDr. Marie Murphy is doing something new this week. She is explicitly calling someone out for their perspective on an infidelity-related topic in an otherwise generally entertaining newspaper column. In this case, it was an opinion about what to do if you see your ex-affair partner out in a socia...
151. Your Questions Answered (Part 4)
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - July 27, 2023 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsCan you keep a long-term affair going alongside your marriage? What has to happen for this situation to work out? Do cheaters always get found out? What do you do when you decide you don’t want to cheat anymore, but you can’t seem to stop? These are just some of the questions addressed in today’...
150. Your Questions Answered (Part 3)
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - July 20, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsIf you're concerned about justifying your decision to end the relationship, being honest without being cruel, the honesty of your affair partner, or feeling trapped in conflicting emotions, this episode is for you. Discover the truth about providing compelling reasons for the choices you m...
149. Your Questions Answered (Part 2)
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - July 13, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsIf you find yourself in a situation where you feel you've made mistakes in your relationship and desire to end it but worry about how others will react to your decisions, if you have concerns or doubts about your sexuality as you age, or if you're struggling with the consequences of infidelity, ...
148. Your Questions Answered (Part 1)
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - July 06, 2023 05:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsWhether you're struggling with your thoughts and expectations of your partner, avoiding looking at your thoughts about your situation, or grappling with other people's judgments about your infidelity, Marie has you covered. Dr. Marie Murphy is discussing everything you need to know about y...
147. You Can’t Shame Yourself into Changing
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - June 29, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsThere is an idea floating around in the cultural fog that if you tell yourself you're doing something wrong or that doing a particular thing makes you a bad person, you'll be able to change. If you're applying this kind of logic to yourself in your infidelity situation with the hopes that it wil...
146. Loving Your Decisions
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - June 22, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsOne of the biggest themes Dr. Marie Murphy's clients struggle with when they come to her for help is making decisions. If you currently believe that there are right and wrong decisions regarding your infidelity situation, this episode is for you. You have the option of lovingly committing...
145. Don’t Wait to Get Caught
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - June 15, 2023 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsSome people keep their infidelity situations going because they don't know what they want. They think being in this state of not knowing offers them some protection, as they haven't made the difficult decision yet. However, whether you know what you want or not, getting caught would probably be ...
144. Your One Wild and Precious Life
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - June 08, 2023 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsAs humans, we are part of the cosmos, something much vaster than ourselves, and our understanding of it is only partial. However, your infidelity situation could serve as a window into comprehending your one wild and precious life on a deeper level. Discover how understanding your infideli...
143. Treating Your Infidelity Situation as a Life Project
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - June 01, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsAre you viewing your infidelity as an unsolvable mystery, or are you ready to tackle it as a life project, an opportunity for resolution, and personal growth? Your perspective on the situation can greatly impact the outcome. Join us this week to explore new methods to confront and m...
142. Trying to Get Back to the Way a Relationship Used to Be
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - May 25, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsSome individuals who engage in infidelity express a desire to recommit to their spouse or primary partner, longing for a return to the way things were in their relationship. They may feel tormented by their infidelity while yearning for the past, even though they have been dissatisfied with the ...
141. Contentment That Isn’t Dependent Upon a Relationship
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - May 18, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsAs a society, we have decided that if you aren’t in a romantic relationship, you are alone. It’s fine to prefer having a partner (or partners) over not having one. However, it’s time to start creating that feeling of contentment for yourself without relying on a relationship in order to feel pos...
140. Loneliness
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - May 11, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsWhen it comes to infidelity and loneliness, there are two distinct-but-related problems. One is that as humans, we don’t like feeling lonely. The other is that people will go to pretty extreme lengths to avoid loneliness, like getting into or staying in relationships that they don’t actually enj...
139. Comparing Your Spouse to Your Affair Partner
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - May 04, 2023 05:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsComparison is a normal human behavior, especially if you’re romantically involved with multiple people. There is a time and place to make comparisons, but are the comparisons you’re making between your spouse and your affair partner (or between any two people in your life) helping you in any dis...
138. Telling a New Partner About Your History with Infidelity
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - April 27, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsYou get to decide what you share about yourself with other people. If you’re considering telling a new partner about your history with infidelity, make sure you’re doing it for the right reasons. Dr. Marie Murphy is discussing the work you need to do with yourself before you start disclosing ...
137. If You Don’t Feel Guilty About Cheating
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - April 20, 2023 05:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsDiscover how to deal with the idea that there’s something wrong with you because you don’t feel guilty about cheating. Dr. Marie Murphy is discussing why you always have the option of changing what you think a particular behavior means, and why guilt isn’t an effective motivator for doing someth...
136. If You’ve Been Stuck in Your Infidelity Situation for a While
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - April 13, 2023 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsWhen you’re feeling stuck in your infidelity situation, it’s easy to think that the situation is out of your hands and change is becoming increasingly more difficult. What you need is a little tough love so you can see that no matter how long it’s been going on, you are not stuck and you do have...
135. When Your Infidelity Situation is Brand New
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - April 06, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsNo matter how your infidelity situation began, when you decide that whatever you’ve been doing counts as infidelity or cheating, that moment feels like a pretty big deal. You may be totally freaked out, and you may even consider yourself an objectively bad person. The topic of what to do ...
134. Cheating in Open Relationships
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - March 30, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsDiscover the options available to you if your partner has decided you’ve cheated in your open relationship. Dr. Marie Murphy is discussing both sides of the argument, sharing how to empathize with your partner if their view of your open-relationship agreement is different to yours, and she’s lay...
133. Don’t Make Your Partner Break Up with You
Your Secret Is Safe With Me - March 23, 2023 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsWhen someone in a committed relationship has been cheating on their partner and they feel stuck in deciding what they want to do, they sometimes get the idea that they should tell their committed partner, even though they don’t know how they want to move forward. Feeling like you can’t make a...
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