Canadian Family Health Counselling
Canadian Family Health Counselling
Affair-Proof Your Relationship
Affair-Proof Your Relationship
Affair-Proof Your Relationship
Thursday 11th September 2025
Kim Sargent explores the link between affairs and addiction, offering strategies to balance brain chemistry for healthier relationships.
14 minutes
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Mindfulness & Emotional Wellbeing
Mindful Recovery
Innovative Healing Arts
Healing Relationships
Navigating Intimate Relationships
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Episode Overview
- Affairs are linked to dopamine depletion and addiction.
- Balancing brain chemistry can help strengthen relationships.
- Engage in clean dopamine activities like exercise or creativity.
- Recognise cues of dopamine deficiency, like excessive phone use.
- Nutritional building blocks can support brain chemistry.
Affairs are not accidents, but they are addictions.
How do people manage to affair-proof their relationships in today's fast-paced world? Kim Sargent, Clinical Director of Canadian Family Health Counselling, shares her unique perspective on the connection between affairs and addiction. She argues that infidelity isn't just a slip-up but rather an addiction to emotional highs, linked to dopamine depletion. With humour and candour, Sargent explores how ADHD-like tendencies and the craving for novelty can lead to such addictive behaviours.
She offers practical strategies to balance brain chemistry, such as consuming nutritional building blocks and engaging in 'clean dopamine' activities like exercise or creative pursuits. The episode encourages listeners to recognise the cues of dopamine deficiency, like excessive phone use or social media scrolling, and to make small changes for a healthier relationship. By addressing the brain's chemistry, Sargent suggests that couples can create stronger bonds and minimise the risk of affairs.
If you're curious about how brain chemistry impacts relationships or looking for ways to strengthen your partnership, this episode is worth a listen. Could balancing your brain chemistry be the key to a faithful relationship?