Katarina knows this subject from every side. As the daughter of a family broken by an affair, as someone who called off her own engagement, and as a coach who has sat with hundreds of high performers navigating it, without shame and without blame. Her position is simple: the world has more than enough judgment around infidelity, and judgment has never once resolved it. Understanding is what actually moves things.

In this episode, she goes deeper into the two layers underneath most affairs. The first: unmet needs. We are built to get our needs met, and when connection, safety, being seen, or being desired go unmet inside a relationship for long enough, those needs start looking for somewhere else to go. The second layer is the one almost nobody talks about: the hidden stories that stopped you from bringing those needs to your partner in the first place. The learned belief that asking leads to rejection, criticism, or a fight. That there's no point. That it's not safe to need anything at all, until eventually you stop knowing what you need altogether.

She also walks through the practical way out: getting honest about what your needs actually are, building real strategies to meet them, and testing the old stories about what happens when you finally bring them to your partner, because most of those stories are outdated, untested, or simply not true.

Whether you're the one quietly living a double life, or the one on the receiving end of a partner who's gone somewhere else emotionally, this conversation is for you.

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About the Host Katarina Polonska is an Executive Relationship Strategist and a Gender Dynamic Social Scientist from the University of Oxford. She has 15 years of experience studying love, gender, and relationships.

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