# I Caught My Mom Cheating And Now I Am Afraid Of Marriage

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Podcast: [Lights On with Carl Lentz](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lights-on-with-carl-lentz-6927795)
Published: 2026-02-25T00:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Get our new book Overcoming Infidelity: 10 Conversations to Help Heal the Hurt here: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1668230496 Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/overcoming-infidelity-carl-lentz/1149403061?ean=9781668230510 Simon and Schuster: https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Overcoming-Infidelity/Carl-Lentz/9781668230510 --- Want to submit questions? Email us at hello@carlandlaura.com In this raw episode of Lights On, Carl and Laura announce something they have been building for years, their book Overcoming Infidelity: 10 Conversations to Help Heal the Hurt, and then open the inbox and answer three of the most painful emails they have ever received. No filter. No soft answers. Just honest, experience-backed responses from two people who have lived this. Drawing from 23 years of marriage and their own journey through betrayal, rebuilding, and recovery, Carl and Laura tackle three gut-wrenching listener questions and do not flinch. A teenage daughter who discovered her mother's affair, confronted it, and now fears she will never have a safe marriage of her own. A wife whose husband had an affair at work a year and a half ago and still shows up every day to the same office as the woman he cheated with. And a woman married to a pastor who had an emotional affair with a church volunteer, blamed his wife for it, quit marriage counseling because the therapist focused too much on the affair, and is now asking for a divorce while still messaging other women. Carl unpacks the word "qualifier," a term from sexual addiction recovery, and why no contact is not optional, it is the floor. He delivers the truth every man in this situation needs to hear: if your wife's safety is not worth you moving heaven and earth, you need to be honest about what that me…

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