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The Ask The Unfaithful Podcast, is a safe place for both Unfaithful and Betrayed Partners to find hope and healing. This podcast draws on both our personal and professional experience to provide expert insight into the mind of the Unfaithful, and how their behaviors traumatically affect the life, heart and even brain plasticity of Betrayed Partners. Ask the Unfaithful is hosted by two Unfaithfuls in long-term recovery, James and Sam: Therapist and coach James Annear who co-owns CORE Relationship Recovery with his wife, Sharon Rinearson. They have been helping couples recover from the traumatic impacts of infidelity, sexually compulsive behaviors and addiction for over a decade. Formerly with Affair Recovery and now host of Sam's Healing Podcast, Sam has been producing videos for almost 10 years and helping to care for those in crisis due to infidelity and addiction for almost 15 years.
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- 3 days ago36 min
IS CHASING CERTAINTY IN BETRAYAL RECOVERY A TRAP?
What if the very thing you're searching for in betrayal recovery is actually keeping you stuck? After infidelity, how can betrayed partners ever be certain the unfaithful won't betray them again? How do you know they've really changed? And what will it take to finally feel safe in your relationship? The need for certainty after infidelity can feel overwhelming. You want answers, reassurance, and some guarantee that you'll never experience that devastating pain again. Here's something a couple recovering from betrayal might not have considered: Unfaithful partners are often chasing certainty, too - and it may be undermining their recovery in ways they don't even recognize. In this episode of Ask The Unfaithful, Sam and James explore a surprisingly common trap that can keep both partners frustrated, anxious, and disconnected, even when they're genuinely trying to heal. In this episode, we explore: • Why both betrayed and unfaithful partners can become trapped in the search for certainty. • The surprising ways this pursuit can interfere with rebuilding trust after infidelity. • What emotional safety actually requires - and why promises alone aren't enough. • How to recognize whether your recovery is moving toward genuine healing or simply repeating the same frustrating patterns. • A different approach that can fundamentally change how you experience betrayal recovery. If you've been working hard to rebuild your relationship but still feel anxious, uncertain, or stuck, this conversation may change the way you think about recovery. Because the question isn't simply whether trust can be rebuilt. It may be whether you've been pursuing the wrong thing all along. 💬 PLEASE JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Have you found yourself needing guarantees before you can feel safe again? Or have you struggled with not knowing whether your relationship will survive? We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments. 👍 If this episode resonates with you, please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and SHARE it with someone navigating the difficult journey of infidelity recovery. And be sure to check out our sister podcast, Ask The Betrayed, available on YouTube and major podcast platforms. 📩 Questions for Ask The Unfaithful? AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com 🔔 Please hit the bell to be alerted about new videos! 🎧 Find us on Apple, Spotify, and everywhere podcasts are found. 📬 Connect With Us: Have a question or a topic you want us to address? Email: AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com Need help healing? Visit HopeForUs.com Work with James & Sharon: Info@HopeForUs.com Work with Sam: SamsHealingPodcast@gmail.com Our Website: www.AskTheUnfaithful.com Find more from Sam at Sam's Healing Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@samshealingpodcast Follow James at LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/james-annear-lmhc-704551157 Follow CORE Relationship Recovery (James & Sharon) on Facebook: www.facebook.com/CORERelationshipRecovery Individual and Couples Intensives: Core Relationship Recovery offers therapeutic intensives for betrayed partners, unfaithful partners, and couples seeking to rebuild emotional safety and trust after betrayal. Please email us for information about Intensives at Info@HopeForUs.com ⚠️ Note: This episode is educational, not therapy. Please reach out for professional guidance at AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com to learn more about coaching or intensive options.
- 2 weeks ago50 min
DEFENSIVENESS: WHAT ARE THE UNFAITHFUL REALLY DEFENDING WHEN THEY GET DEFENSIVE?
Why do unfaithful partners become so defensive - even when they genuinely want to repair the damage they've caused? After infidelity or betrayal, the unfaithful partner's defensiveness can show up in countless ways: explaining, minimizing, blaming, shutting down, arguing, withdrawing, intellectualizing, collapsing into shame—or desperately trying to convince your betrayed partner that you've changed. But underneath all of those behaviors is a much more important question: What are you actually defending? In this episode of Ask The Unfaithful, James and Sam go beneath the surface of defensiveness to explore the psychological process driving it - and why simply telling yourself to "stop being defensive" usually isn't enough. They examine what can happen internally when an unfaithful partner experiences shame, fear, exposure, criticism, consequences, or the possibility of rejection - and how attempts to protect yourself from those feelings impact your betrayed partner. You'll also learn why defensiveness can feel good to you in the moment while quietly sabotaging empathy, accountability, trust, intimacy, and genuine change. Most importantly, James and Sam explore how to interrupt the defensive cycle and begin responding from curiosity, distress tolerance, accountability, and integrity instead of immediate emotional relief. Because recovery may ultimately require asking a very different question: Can I stop protecting the person I was long enough to become the person I want to be? If defensiveness keeps getting in the way of your infidelity recovery, betrayal recovery, rebuilding trust, or emotional connection, this conversation is for you. 💬 Please Comment below: What parts of this video made a difference for you? 📬 Connect With Us: Have a question or a topic you want us to address? Email: AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com Need help healing? Visit HopeForUs.com Work with James & Sharon: Info@HopeForUs.com Work with Sam: SamsHealingPodcast@gmail.com 👉 If this episode resonates with you, please like, share, and subscribe for more conversations on betrayal trauma, affair recovery, and building trust again. ------ Our Website: www.AskTheUnfaithful.com Contact us: AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com 🔗 Need help healing? Visit HopeForUs.com (Email: Info@HopeForUs.com ) or email Sam at SamsHealingPodcast@gmail.com 📬 Reach out: asktheunfaithful@gmail.com 🎧 Find us on Apple, Spotify, and everywhere podcasts are found. Find James & Sharon at the CORE Relationship Recovery website: www.HopeForUs.com Find more from Sam at Sam's Healing Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@samshealingpodcast Follow James at LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/james-annear-lmhc-704551157 Follow CORE Relationship Recovery (James & Sharon) on Facebook: www.facebook.com/CORERelationshipRecovery ⚠️ Note: This episode is educational, not therapy. Please reach out for professional guidance at AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com to learn more about coaching or intensive options.
- Oct 7, 202631 min
5 MISTAKES THE UNFAITHFUL MAKE THAT WILL END BETRAYAL RECOVERY
Are you genuinely trying to repair your relationship after infidelity—but still finding that your betrayed partner doesn't feel safe, understood, or supported? In betrayal recovery, unfaithful partners often make mistakes that seem completely reasonable to you at the time. You want forgiveness. You want trust to return. You want your partner to feel better. And you desperately want some sign that the two of you are moving forward. But what if some of the things you're doing to help recovery are actually making it harder? And what if you continue these mistakes without learning to do things differently? It could spell the end of recovery for you as a couple. In this episode of Ask The Unfaithful, James and Sam unpack 5 common rookie mistakes unfaithful partners make after infidelity - including mistakes they both made during their own recoveries. They explore the crucial difference between relief and repair, why good intentions aren't enough to rebuild emotional safety, and why betrayal recovery requires something very different from simply trying to "get past" what happened. You'll also hear what it takes to rebuild trust, what authentic remorse actually looks, and why becoming an active participant in your betrayed partner's healing can completely change the recovery process. The question isn't simply: "How do we make this pain stop?" It may be: "Can I become someone safe enough to walk through this pain with my partner?" If you're an unfaithful partner trying to rebuild trust after betrayal, this episode will help you recognize where recovery may be getting stuck—and what needs to change. 💬 Please Comment below: What parts of this video made a difference for you? 📬 Connect With Us: Have a question or a topic you want us to address? Email: AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com Need help healing? Visit HopeForUs.com Work with James & Sharon: Info@HopeForUs.com Work with Sam: SamsHealingPodcast@gmail.com 👉 If this episode resonates with you, please like, share, and subscribe for more conversations on betrayal trauma, affair recovery, and building trust again. ------ Our Website: www.AskTheUnfaithful.com Contact us: AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com 🔗 Need help healing? Visit HopeForUs.com (Email: Info@HopeForUs.com ) or email Sam at SamsHealingPodcast@gmail.com 📬 Reach out: asktheunfaithful@gmail.com 🎧 Find us on Apple, Spotify, and everywhere podcasts are found. Find James & Sharon at the CORE Relationship Recovery website: www.HopeForUs.com Find more from Sam at Sam's Healing Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@samshealingpodcast Follow James at LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/james-annear-lmhc-704551157 Follow CORE Relationship Recovery (James & Sharon) on Facebook: www.facebook.com/CORERelationshipRecovery ⚠️ Note: This episode is educational, not therapy. Please reach out for professional guidance at AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com to learn more about coaching or intensive options.
- Sep 23, 202645 min
TRICKLE TRUTH: Why Staggered Disclosures Re-Traumatize Betrayed Partners in the Worst Way
Why can trickle truth feel even more devastating than discovering the affair itself? For many betrayed partners, discovery is not a single event. First comes the affair. Then another detail emerges. Weeks later, another confession. Months later, another lie, omission, or piece of information changes the story... again. Just when the betrayed partner begins thinking, "At least now I finally know what happened," reality changes... for the second, third... fourth time. In this episode of Ask The Unfaithful, James and Sam take a deep look at trickle truth after infidelity - why unfaithful partners do it, what is happening psychologically underneath it, why it can be so destabilizing for the betrayed partner, and what must change for genuine recovery to begin. Trickle truth - also called staggered disclosure, incremental confession, or piecemeal revelation - is more than withholding information. And that leads to one of the central ideas of this episode: The affair may end behaviorally before it ends psychologically. In this episode, you'll learn: • What trickle truth really is • Why an unfaithful partner may continue withholding information even after discovery • Why partial disclosure may provide temporary relief for the unfaithful but creates greater instability later • Why trickle truth can make the betrayed partner feel as though the affair is still happening • Why betrayed partners may begin checking phones, rebuilding timelines, reviewing messages, receipts, and inconsistencies • Why the betrayed partner isn't "chasing information" – and what they may be desperately trying to do by investigating • How trickle truth can eventually make peace itself feel unsafe • The massive, unseen cost of trickle truth for the betrayed partner • The hidden psychological cost of trickle truth for the unfaithful partner • Why partial truth keeps the unfaithful organized around secrecy, monitoring, editing, anticipating, and managing rather than recovery • How recovery moves from information management to character transformation • Why professionally guided full therapeutic disclosure is absolutely essential James and Sam discuss how the movement from information management to identity transformation allows the unfaithful partner to stop asking, "How much reality can I control?" and begin asking, "How can I become someone who no longer needs to manage reality at all?" If you are an unfaithful partner, this episode may be difficult to hear—but understanding why trickle truth happens and what it does is an important step toward accountability, integrity, and genuine transformation. If you are a betrayed partner, this conversation may help put language around why repeated partial disclosures can be so profoundly destabilizing and why the need to establish what is real can become so consuming. 💬 Please Comment below: What parts of this video made a difference for you? 📬 Connect With Us: Have a question or a topic you want us to address? Email: AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com Need help healing? Visit HopeForUs.com Work with James & Sharon: Info@HopeForUs.com Work with Sam: SamsHealingPodcast@gmail.com 👉 If this episode resonates with you, please like, share, and subscribe for more conversations on betrayal trauma, affair recovery, and building trust again. ------ Our Website: www.AskTheUnfaithful.com Contact us: AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com 🔗 Need help healing? Visit HopeForUs.com (Email: Info@HopeForUs.com ) or email Sam at SamsHe
- Sep 10, 202630 min
4 MISTAKES THAT PREVENT COUPLES FROM HEALING FROM INFIDELITY
Are you actually moving forward in betrayal recovery or are you rushing to avoid discomfort? After infidelity, many unfaithful partners enter recovery with sincere intentions. They want healing, forgiveness, trust, and some sense of normalcy again. But when those things are wanted too quickly, what looks like motivation can actually become avoidance. In this episode of Ask The Unfaithful, James and Sam explore four common mistakes that keep couples stuck after infidelity, all connected by the same underlying pattern: rushing through the parts of betrayal recovery that are hardest to tolerate. As James explains, couples can believe they are moving forward when they are actually moving around the pain that still needs to be processed. You'll learn: • Why rushing recovery and avoidance are often connected • The critical difference between momentum and avoidance: momentum moves through pain, while avoidance moves away from it • Why wanting to get to the other side of recovery can leave the betrayed partner feeling alone, burdensome, or pressured to suppress their pain • Why focusing on date nights, love languages, and relationship improvement before rebuilding safety can backfire • How avoiding difficult conversations may repeat the same avoidance patterns that existed before the betrayal • Why betrayal recovery is cyclical rather than linear • Why old triggers that still happen do not necessarily mean healing has failed • How the unfaithful partner's discomfort can unintentionally become the organizing force in recovery • The five things matter more than getting through recovery quickly • Practical questions for the unfaithful partner to ask themselves One of the central ideas in this conversation is simple but challenging: If your primary goal is to feel better, you may be avoiding. If your primary goal is to become healthier, you're much more likely to be recovering. James and Sam show you how to see what is happening clearly so you can shift your perspective: If you are the unfaithful partner, this episode will help you recognize when discomfort is quietly pushing you to rush, withdraw, defend, or move on prematurely. If you are the betrayed partner, it may help put language around why being rushed in recovery can feel so lonely—and why your ongoing questions, triggers, and need for processing do not mean that you are failing to heal. 💬 Please Comment: What parts of this video made a difference for you? 📬 Connect With Us: Have a question or a topic you want us to address? Email: AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com Need help healing? Visit HopeForUs.com Work with James & Sharon: Info@HopeForUs.com Work with Sam: SamsHealingPodcast@gmail.com 👉 If this episode resonates with you, please like, share, and subscribe for more conversations on betrayal trauma, affair recovery, and building trust again. ------ Our Website: www.AskTheUnfaithful.com Contact us: AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com 🔗 Need help healing? Visit HopeForUs.com (Email: Info@HopeForUs.com ) or email Sam at SamsHealingPodcast@gmail.com 📬 Reach out: asktheunfaithful@gmail.com 🎧 Find us on Apple, Spotify, and everywhere podcasts are found. Find James & Sharon at the CORE Relationship Recovery website: www.HopeForUs.com Find more from Sam at Sam's Healing Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@samshealingpodcast Follow James at LinkedIn: <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-annear-lmhc-70455
- Aug 26, 202643 min
THE VICTIM MINDSET: WHY THE UNFAITHFUL WHINES, BLAMES, AND ISN'T EMPATHETIC
What if the biggest obstacle to your recovery isn't shame, defensiveness, or even your affair - but believing you're the victim? Many unfaithful partners experience real grief, shame, fear, and emotional pain after discovery. But when that pain becomes the organizing principle of their recovery, it shifts the focus away from healing and toward emotional self-protection. In this episode of Ask the Unfaithful, James and Sam explore one of the most overlooked barriers to genuine recovery: the victim stance. You'll learn why the victim stance often develops long before an affair begins, how childhood adaptations continue to shape adult relationships, and why, when the unfaithful organizes their recovery around emotional relief instead of integrity, it keeps both partners stuck. This conversation isn't about denying your pain. It's about learning how to process it without allowing it to define your recovery. In This Episode You'll Learn: • What the victim stance actually is - and what it isn't. • Why real emotional pain doesn't automatically make someone the victim. • How childhood experiences can shape adult coping strategies. • The hidden ways the victim stance shows up, and how it can look like vulnerability or self-awareness. • Why comparing pain damages healing. • How the victim stance blocks accountability, empathy, agency, and intimacy. • The difference between grief and victimhood. • Why recovery isn't about organizing your life around pain—it's about organizing it around integrity. • Three daily questions to help move beyond the victim stance. One of the most important ideas from this episode is this: Recovery doesn't ask you to deny your emotional pain. It asks you not to organize your behaviors - or your identity - around that pain. If you're committed to becoming a safer, healthier partner after betrayal, this conversation offers practical insight into one of the deepest shifts recovery requires. Chapters: 00:00 – What Is the Victim Stance? 02:30 – Pain vs. Victimhood 04:00 – Where the Victim Stance Begins 08:00 – The Hidden Forms of Victim Thinking 16:00 – Nine Ways Victimhood Sabotages Recovery 30:30 – Moving Beyond the Victim Stance 36:30 – Three Daily Questions for Growth 39:00 – Hope, Healing, and Next Steps 💬 Please Comment below: What parts of this video made a difference for you? 📬 Connect With Us: Have a question or a topic you want us to address? Email: AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com Need help healing? Visit HopeForUs.com Work with James & Sharon: Info@HopeForUs.com Work with Sam: SamsHealingPodcast@gmail.com 👉 If this episode resonates with you, please like, share, and subscribe for more conversations on betrayal trauma, affair recovery, and building trust again. ------ Our Website: www.AskTheUnfaithful.com Contact us: <a href=
- Aug 12, 202629 min
4 WAYS THE UNFAITHFUL MINIMIZE AND DEFLECT
Why does recovery stall even when you're trying? If you're the unfaithful partner, you may genuinely want to heal your relationship—but without realizing it, you could be making four common mistakes that keep your betrayed partner feeling unseen, unsafe, and emotionally alone. In this episode of Ask The Unfaithful, James and Sam expose the hidden patterns of minimization and deflection that derail recovery. These behaviors often aren't intentional, but they are deeply damaging. These self-protective responses prevent empathy, block trust, and keep healing stuck. You'll learn what these patterns are and why they happen, how they affect your betrayed partner, and - most importantly - what to do instead. If you're serious about becoming a safer partner and healing your relationship from your betrayal, this conversation will help you replace self-protection with ownership, validation, curiosity, and consistent recovery. In this episode you'll learn: ✔️ The four most common recovery mistakes unfaithful partners make ✔️ Why minimization feels protective—but causes more harm ✔️ How defensiveness shuts down empathy and accountability ✔️ Why relationship problems never justify betrayal ✔️ The difference between shame and healthy accountability ✔️ How to validate your betrayed partner instead of explaining or defending ✔️ Practical tools to replace self-protection with real repair Healing isn't determined by when you feel less guilty; it begins when you become a safer partner. 💬 Please Comment below: What parts of this video made a difference for you? 📬 Connect With Us: Have a question or a topic you want us to address? Email: AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com Need help healing? Visit HopeForUs.com Work with James & Sharon: Info@HopeForUs.com Work with Sam: SamsHealingPodcast@gmail.com 👉 If this episode resonates with you, please like, share, and subscribe for more conversations on betrayal trauma, affair recovery, and building trust again. ------ Our Website: www.AskTheUnfaithful.com Contact us: AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com 🔗 Need help healing? Visit HopeForUs.com (Email: Info@HopeForUs.com ) or email Sam at SamsHealingPodcast@gmail.com 📬 Reach out: asktheunfaithful@gmail.com 🎧 Find us on Apple, Spotify, and everywhere podcasts are found. Find James & Sharon at the CORE Relationship Recovery website: www.HopeForUs.com Find more from Sam at Sam's Healing Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@samshealingpodcast Follow James at LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/james-annear-lmhc-704551157 Follow CORE Relationship Recovery (James & Sharon) on Facebook: www.facebook.com/CORERelationshipRecovery ⚠️ Note: This episode is educational, not therapy. Please reach out for professional guidance at AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com to learn more about coaching or intensive options.
- Jul 29, 202638 min
4 WAYS THE UNFAITHFUL LEARNED IT WAS OKAY TO CHEAT
HOW DID THE UNFAITHFUL LEARN THAT INFIDELITY WAS OKAY? Can your childhood make you more prone to infidelity? Not by causing you to cheat, but by shaping how you learned to handle shame, conflict, rejection, loneliness, and emotional distress. In this episode of Ask The Unfaithful, James and Sam explore how four common parenting styles can influence emotional development and increase vulnerability to unhealthy coping strategies later in life—including emotional affairs, sexual acting out, validation seeking, avoidance, secrecy, and betrayal. This conversation is not about blaming parents. It's about understanding the emotional training ground that shaped your nervous system, your attachment style, and your responses to distress—because insight creates responsibility, not excuses. You'll learn: ✅ How and why one style of parenting can create weak boundaries and difficulty tolerating distress ✅ How and why another style often produces shame, perfectionism, and secret emotional lives ✅ How and why a third style can leave you with an unhealthy attachment style and an ongoing search for "fulfillment" ✅ Why this type of truly healthy parenting develops emotional regulation, empathy, accountability, and secure attachment You'll discover that relational recovery begins when you understand the emotional skills you never learned growing up and intentionally begin building them today. Whether you're the unfaithful partner seeking lasting recovery or the betrayed partner trying to understand why infidelity happened, this episode provides a compassionate, research-informed framework that can help both partners move toward healing. In this episode: • The connection between parenting styles and infidelity • Why affairs are often attempts at emotional regulation – and are not all about sex • What is the connection between Attachment Hunger and affairs • How childhood coping strategies develop and become adult problems in relating, empathy, communication and vulnerability • Shame, secrecy, perfectionism, and emotional suppression • The difference between emotional intensity and genuine intimacy • Why insight leads to responsibility—not excuses • A practical healing roadmap for each parenting style you might have received 📬 Connect With Us: Have a question or a topic you want us to address? Email: AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com Need help healing? Visit HopeForUs.com Work with James & Sharon: Info@HopeForUs.com Work with Sam: SamsHealingPodcast@gmail.com 👉 If this episode resonates with you, please like, share, and subscribe for more conversations on betrayal trauma, affair recovery, and building trust again. ------ Our Website: www.AskTheUnfaithful.com Contact us: AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com 🔗 Need help healing? Visit HopeForUs.com (Email: Info@HopeForUs.com ) or email Sam at SamsHealingPodcast@gmail.com 📬 Reach out: asktheunfaithful@gmail.com 🎧 Find us on Apple, Spotify, and everywhere podcasts are found. Find James & Sharon at the CORE Relationship Recovery website: www.HopeForUs.com Find more from Sam at Sam's Healing Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@samshealingpodcast Follow James at LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/james-annear-lmhc-704551157 Follow CORE Relationship Recovery (James & Sharon) on Facebook: www.facebook.com/CORERelationshipRecovery ⚠️ Note: This episode is educational, not therapy. Please reach out for professional guidance at AskTheUnfaithful@gmail.com to learn more about coaching or intensive options.
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The Ask The Unfaithful Podcast, is a safe place for both Unfaithful and Betrayed Partners to find hope and healing. This podcast draws on both our personal and professional experience to provide expert insight into the mind of the Unfaithful, and how their behaviors traumatically affect the life, heart and even brain plasticity of Betrayed Partners. Ask the Unfaithful is hosted by two Unfaithfuls in long-term recovery, James and Sam: Therapist and coach James Annear who co-owns CORE Relationship Recovery with his wife, Sharon Rinearson. They have been helping couples recover from the traumatic impacts of infidelity, sexually compulsive behaviors and addiction for over a decade. Formerly with Affair Recovery and now host of Sam's Healing Podcast, Sam has been producing videos for almost 10 years and helping to care for those in crisis due to infidelity and addiction for almost 15 years.
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