Should You Tell a Coworker's Wife About His Affair?

Therapy Thursday with Ellen K · Oct 29, 2026 · 19m · transcript

Lauren loves her job as a nurse at a large hospital, and everyone loves the hospital's charismatic chief surgeon. But he's been having affairs at work, lots of them. It was just a rumor until Lauren walked past the scrub room and saw him making out with a new nurse. Now she knows his wife and kids, and she feels she has to say something.

Should she tell his wife? Or does she stay out of a marriage she knows nothing about?

Licensed therapist Sarah Dash joins Ellen and Ryan to help Lauren with this. They talk about cognitive dissonance, why it's so hard to live with not knowing, and the…