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by Nikki Corbett
I was the other woman for five years. He was married. It wasn't the plan — but it happened, and it changed everything about how I see love, relationships, and myself.The Scarlet Edit is my podcast. I started it because I was tired of carrying my story in silence and I knew I wasn't the only one. This is where I talk about affairs, infidelity, cheating, divorce, and starting over — without shame, without the moral lectures, and without pretending that love and relationships fit into the neat little boxes everyone wants them to.I'm Nikki Corbett. I've been the other woman. I've been divorced. I'm on the other side — and I have a lot to say about it. I talk about the process of owning my self worth - what I actually want, who I actually am, and what love looks like when you stop performing and start being honest.Every Thursday, I share what I'm learning, what I'm living, and what I'm still figuring out. Sometimes that's a solo episode where I go deep on my own experience — falling in l
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- 4 days ago18 min
How to Get Through the Holidays as the Other Woman
Listening in the Apple Podcasts app? Hit the + button at the top right so you can follow the show!Being the other woman during the holidays is lonely in a way nobody talks about. The parties, the family dinners, the Christmas Eve plans. He's at all of them and you're not. I spent holidays with my family and my friends and I was still sad, because I wasn't with him and his obligations always came first.It was around a holiday when I finally ended that relationship. I was fed up, I was tired, and I was sick of spending holidays apart. So if I were your best friend and you were in an affair right now, this is the tough love I'd give you.Go to the parties. Stay out late. Talk to strangers. Don't feel guilty for living your own life. Then use this season to take an honest look at the relationship. Is it serving you or holding you back? How did you get here, and what do you actually want for 2027?I also share the moment in a hotel bathroom mirror when I said "I value myself" out loud, and why that was the first domino. Stop waiting for someone to choose you who is unavailable to do so. Choose yourself.🍒 Interested in working with me? Let’s chat.🕸️Waiting to be chosen? Download The Affair Edit.🌱 Tired of performing? Get The Self-Worth Reset🎧 New episodes every Thursday!💌 Business inquiries: teamnikkicorbett@gmail.com
- 1 weeks ago24 min
Why Is the Other Woman Always Blamed for the Affair?
Why is the other woman always blamed when a married man cheats? I was the other woman for five years, and my comment section proves the answer every week. I've been called a homewrecker more times than I can count. Nobody's coming for him.This week I dug into societal expectations. Where they come from, who gets to enforce them, and why the rules around infidelity are louder than almost any other. National polling shows 89% of Americans still say affairs are wrong, the same number as 25 years ago, while 75% say divorce is okay. About one in five married men and one in eight married women admit to cheating. The judging is so much louder than the behavior.I also take on the line people love to throw at me: if you wanted an affair, just get a divorce. Divorce is hard no matter what role you play in it. And I get into why people want remorse so badly. Research shows remorse works as a safety signal. It tells people you're not a repeat risk.I'm not sorry. I would never get into a situation like that again. And I'm not going to waste the one life I have living it in regret because strangers tell me that's what I'm supposed to do.📰 Join my Substack🍒 Interested in working with me? Let’s chat.🕸️Waiting to be chosen? Download The Affair Edit.🌱 Tired of performing? Get The Self-Worth Reset🎧 New episodes every Thursday!💌 Business inquiries: teamnikkicorbett@gmail.com
- 2 weeks ago58 min
Will He Leave His Wife? A Therapist and the Other Woman Answer
Will he leave his wife? Does he still think about me? Why don't I feel shame about my affair? I sat down with Lauren LaRusso, psychotherapist, author of Beyond Infidelity, and a betrayed wife herself, to get into the questions both sides of an affair are afraid to ask out loud.She was the betrayed wife. I was the other woman. Lauren works with every role in the affair triangle, affair partners included, and we get into shame vs. guilt, why the affair partner is the one who gets the scarlet letter, and why I've never felt shame about my affair.We talk about affair partner grief, the silence after an affair ends, and grieving a future that never happened. Lauren names affair partner math, and I admit to looking up divorce laws in his state when he never told me he was getting divorced.Lauren also shares how discovering her ex-husband's affair shaped her practice, what she missed while married to a doctor in training, why divorce is sad even when you want out, and why she calls infidelity a gift. I've said I don't regret being the other woman. We end up in the same place from opposite sides.🍒 Interested in working with me? Let’s chat.🕸️Waiting to be chosen? Download The Affair Edit.🌱 Tired of performing? Get The Self-Worth Reset🎧 New episodes every Thursday!💌 Business inquiries: teamnikkicorbett@gmail.com
- 3 weeks ago24 min
Is the Other Woman a Homewrecker? Reading My Comments
Is the other woman a homewrecker? According to my YouTube comments, yes. According to me, no. This week I read the comments people leave on my videos and I talk back.It started with a man I've never met reading one 600-word article on my Substack and deciding I'm basically a wh*re. I blocked him. Then I went to YouTube, because YouTube comments are where it all lives. Zero self-respect. Homewrecker. Repent. You called it love, it was desperation. You were delusional. I answer every one.Some of the comments are actually good questions. How could I trust a married man who was lying to his wife? Why don't I feel remorse? Can an affair be real love? I get into all of it, including why I trusted him, why I don't feel bad, and why judging my actions and judging me are one and the same.I close with an exchange with a wife who commented on my video about his wife knowing, and why I still answer the comments people leave.Subscribe to my YouTube Channel!🍒 Interested in working with me? Let’s chat.🕸️Waiting to be chosen? Download The Affair Edit.🌱 Tired of performing? Get The Self-Worth Reset🎧 New episodes every Thursday!💌 Business inquiries: teamnikkicorbett@gmail.com
- Oct 8, 202623 min
Why Don't I Feel Guilty About My Affair?
Why don't I feel guilty about my affair? And why does everyone expect me to? Last week a man commented on my Substack article to tell me I'm a whore. He read one piece of my life and decided who I am. I blocked him, deleted it, and then started thinking about shame.Shame and guilt are two different feelings. Guilt says I feel bad that I did that. Shame says I am bad. A lot of shame comes from what we think other people will think of us, and sometimes it has nothing to do with anything we did. I talk about the difference, and about why society expects anyone involved in an affair, whether you cheated, or you were the other woman or the other man, to repent and ask the world for forgiveness.I don't feel shame. I don't feel guilt. I don't regret the relationship I was in, and I won't ask strangers to forgive me. Many of my listeners and clients have told me they feel the same way. I explain why that isn't me condoning affairs, why I love who I am on this side of it, and why I don't believe you can force yourself to feel a way you don't.I also mention my episode with Dr. Zoe Shaw on shame and complex shame, and I'm asking men who've had an affair, and women who've been involved in one in any role, how they felt once it was over.🍒 Interested in working with me? Let’s chat.🕸️Waiting to be chosen? Download The Affair Edit.🌱 Tired of performing? Get The Self-Worth Reset🎧 New episodes every Thursday!💌 Business inquiries: teamnikkicorbett@gmail.com
- Oct 1, 202619 min
Should You Tell a New Partner You Were the Other Woman?
Should you tell a new partner you were the other woman? When I first started dating again post-breakup, I decided I would. I led with it. If I had to tell a man eventually, why not tell him from the jump?Back then, it backfired. The men who showed up looked great on paper and were married, had a girlfriend, or were "separated" and living on a friend's couch. Some of them assumed my honesty meant I'd do it again. Absolutely not. I shed some tears, put dating on pause, and put the next two years into myself.I also get into midlife dating and men lying about their age on the apps (one Hinge match said 48 and posted a golf swing that said 65), why talking about sex still makes me crawl into my shell like a turtle, and my Q4 plans: Kiss and Tell on Substack and a brand new TikTok.This go around with dating looked nothing like the last, and The Summer of George Bonus Series wrapped up last week where I documented it all.Because The Scarlet Edit is public, when I matched with men on Hinge this summer, I sent the podcast first. The single, confident ones didn't ask a bunch of questions. The right people won't look at your past like you did something horrible and should be punished for it.💋 Join my Substack Kiss & Tell🎵 Follow my TikTok🍒 Interested in working with me? Let’s chat.🕸️Waiting to be chosen? Download The Affair Edit.🌱 Tired of performing? Get The Self-Worth Reset🎧 New episodes every Thursday!💌 Business inquiries: teamnikkicorbett@gmail.com
- Sep 25, 202614 min
Saying Yes to Dating in Your 40s (The Summer of George Finale)
Taking a break from dating apps after a summer of putting myself out there. That's where I landed in the Summer of George finale. Sixteen Friday episodes, four months, three chapters I didn't see coming, and one very gross run-in with a bird in Greece.I spent my last two weeks in Greece living the way I love to live here. My table at the waterfront cafe where the Wi-Fi connects the second I sit down. A friend's first run of her new food tour. And a bird that shit on my head halfway through it. Second time in my life. The first was Cambodia in 2013, and that time at least I had a pool to dive into.I also get into why I called it the Summer of George in the first place. Seinfeld, a clip I found on Instagram, and my own summer of yes: making myself uncomfortable, trying the things I kept saying I'd try, and putting myself back out there to date on purpose.Then what's next. My Hinge is paused, freshly updated, and going back on once I'm in Scottsdale after my 30-year high school reunion and a mastermind I'm speaking at. And Kiss & Tell, my new Substack, with a free weekly essay that goes deeper on the show and a paid tier that alternates between my diary and your anonymous confessions. If this summer taught me anything, put yourself out there. You'll be surprised at what happens.💋 Join my Substack Kiss & Tell🍒 Interested in working with me? Let’s chat.🕸️Waiting to be chosen? Download The Affair Edit.🌱 Tired of performing? Get The Self-Worth Reset🎧 New episodes every Thursday!💌 Business inquiries: teamnikkicorbett@gmail.com
- Sep 24, 202624 min
Why Do People Really Have Affairs? (It's Not Just Sex)
Are affairs just about sex? It's the question people jump to the second they hear the word affair, and after last week's conversation with Dr. Marie Murphy, I wanted to go deeper with my own answer.Yes, sex plays a role. We crave intimacy and connection, and some people go looking for it because they're not getting any of it at home. I get it. Physical intimacy is a non-negotiable for me too. But if my affair had only been about sex, it never would have lasted as long as it did. You reach a point with someone where you either like who they are or you don't, and the sex can't carry that.I get into why so many people are so curious about affairs in the first place, how attraction works when it's instant versus when it grows, and why so many women never discover what their body is actually capable of until they're with someone who wants to enjoy it with them. This is one of the more personal ones, and at 48 it still feels strange to feel awkward talking about the most primal thing two people can do.Affairs tap into a level of intimacy, physical and emotional, that people are craving and not getting anywhere else. That's the part nobody discusses while they're busy with the scandal of it all.🍒 Interested in working with me? Let’s chat.🕸️Waiting to be chosen? Download The Affair Edit.🌱 Tired of performing? Get The Self-Worth Reset🎧 New episodes every Thursday!💌 Business inquiries: teamnikkicorbett@gmail.com
About The Scarlet Edit: Infidelity, Divorce, Starting Over.
I was the other woman for five years. He was married. It wasn't the plan — but it happened, and it changed everything about how I see love, relationships, and myself.The Scarlet Edit is my podcast. I started it because I was tired of carrying my story in silence and I knew I wasn't the only one. This is where I talk about affairs, infidelity, cheating, divorce, and starting over — without shame, without the moral lectures, and without pretending that love and relationships fit into the neat little boxes everyone wants them to.I'm Nikki Corbett. I've been the other woman. I've been divorced. I'm on the other side — and I have a lot to say about it. I talk about the process of owning my self worth - what I actually want, who I actually am, and what love looks like when you stop performing and start being honest.Every Thursday, I share what I'm learning, what I'm living, and what I'm still figuring out. Sometimes that's a solo episode where I go deep on my own experience — falling in l
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