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In this episode, Niall asks: If you found out your father was cheating on your mother, would you tell her? The question comes from a young woman who emailed the show after catching her dad having an affair — and now she’s torn between protecting her mother and protecting her relationship with her father.
Some callers said she absolutely needs to tell her mother. They argued that staying silent makes her complicit, and that honesty is the only way to prevent deeper betrayal. One shared their own experience of exposing a cheating father, saying it was painful but necessary.
Others felt it wasn’t her place to get involved. They said the daughter shouldn’t be put in the middle of her parents’ marriage and warned that revealing the affair could cause more damage than it fixes. One caller pointed out that people make mistakes, and rushing to expose it might destroy what’s left of the family.
Niall reflected that trust, loyalty, and truth don’t always point in the same direction — and sometimes, the hardest choices are the ones with no clear right answer.
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In this episode, Niall asks: If you found out your father was cheating on your mother, would you tell her? The question comes from a young woman who emailed the show after catching her dad having an affair — and now she’s torn between protecting her mother and protecting her relationship with her father.
Some callers said she absolutely needs to tell her mother. They argued that staying silent makes her complicit, and that honesty is the only way to prevent deeper betrayal. One shared their own experience of exposing a cheating father, saying it was painful but necessary.
Others felt it wasn’t her place to get involved. They said the daughter shouldn’t be put in the middle of her parents’ marriage and warned that revealing the affair could cause more damage than it fixes. One caller pointed out that people make mistakes, and rushing to expose it might destroy what’s left of the family.
Niall reflected that trust, loyalty, and truth don’t always point in the same direction — and sometimes, the hardest choices are the ones with no clear right answer.
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