Buckle up! This episode dives deeper than the typical cheating/infidelity discussions you've heard before. While we agree cheating is an incredibly heartbreaking experience for the betrayed to go through and is a choice that has huge life changing implications...we wanted to have a deeper conversation about the motivation behind why people do it. In this episode, Rachel and Stacey are joined by therapist Mac Stanley Cazeau LMHC to explore why people cheat. Rachel, Stacey They discuss how to define what counts as cheating, emotional affairs and the idea of limerence. Mac and Stacey are on the hot seat for DC in the DMs where they rapid fire answer “cheating” or “not cheating” for different community experiences.

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