The Scarlet Edit: Infidelity, Divorce, Starting Over.

Nikki Corbett

I was the other woman for five years. He was married. It wasn't the plan — but it happened, and it changed everything about how I see love, relationships, and myself. The Scarlet Edit is my podcast. I started it because I was tired of carrying my story in silence and I knew I wasn't the only one. This is where I talk about affairs, infidelity, cheating, divorce, and starting over — without shame, without the moral lectures, and without pretending that love and relationships fit into the neat little boxes everyone wants them to. I'm Nikki Corbett. I've been the other woman. I've been divorced. I'm on the other side — and I have a lot to say about it. I talk about the process of owning my self worth - what I actually want, who I actually am, and what love looks like when you stop performing and start being honest. Every Thursday, I share what I'm learning, what I'm living, and what I'm still figuring out. Sometimes that's a solo episode where I go deep on my own experience — falling in love with a married man, the loneliness of affairs, the grief that comes after you walk away from something that wasn't yours to keep. Sometimes it's a conversation with a guest who has been through their own version of the mess — narcissistic abuse, toxic relationships, divorce in midlife, secret relationships, or the slow process of rebuilding after everything falls apart. This show is for the woman who has been the other woman and never had a safe place to talk about it. For the woman going through a divorce she didn't see coming. For the woman stuck in a marriage that looks fine on the outside but feels dead on the inside. For the woman who is dating again after years and has no idea what she's doing. For the woman who is choosing to be alone and is learning that solo doesn't mean lonely. The woman who was the one who cheated and is carrying that too. And for anyone who has ever been told that their story makes them less worthy of love — it doesn't. I don't have all the answers. I'm not a therapist. I'm just a woman who decided to stop being quiet about the things we're all going through but nobody wants to say out loud. If you've ever thought "am I the only one?" — you're not. Pull up a chair. Let's talk about it. New episodes every Thursday. 💌 Business inquiries: teamnikkicorbett@gmail.com

  1. 1d ago ·  Bonus

    Dating in Midlife: Back on the Apps (The Summer of George #1)

    Welcome to the first bonus episode of The Summer of George. After swearing I'd never get back on a dating app, I did. This is week one — a goal of three meet ups, because c'mon, they aren't dates, one that actually happened, and everything I learned in between. I'm sharing what it's really like getting back on dating apps in midlife. The strange disconnect between who you talk to in an app and who shows up in person. The snap judgment debate — do I give every guy a real chance, or do I trust my gut the way I would if he walked up to me in public? And how going in with a different mindset changed how I experienced the whole thing. There was the guy who messaged me from work asking if I wanted to get frisky. The one who opened with a crop top comment. The man I talked to on the phone for an entire hour, made plans with for Saturday night, and then never heard from again. Straight ghost. And one lunch with a newly single guy where I noticed three moments my own boundaries went loose and I want to do better next time. The Summer of George is my commitment to saying yes more, dating again, and getting back out there. Every Friday through the end of September, I'll drop a quick update on how it's going. Week one is in the books. Onto SoCal. 🍒 Interested in working with me? Let’s chat. 🌱 Tired of performing? Get The Self-Worth Reset 🎧 New episodes every Thursday! 💌 Business inquiries: teamnikkicorbett@gmail.com

    10 min
  2. 2d ago

    When Your Husband Has Had Multiple Affairs

    Sydney reached out on Instagram. Her husband has had three affairs, two in 2021 and one this past February, and she'd been listening to the show for a while. She wanted to ask me about something I'd said in a recent episode, woman to woman, not as a fight. I said yes immediately, and I also kind of panicked. In over sixty episodes, I've never sat across from a wife who knew I'd been the other woman in someone else's marriage. What came out of this surprised me. Sydney is sharp, honest, and self-aware in a way that's rare. She walks me through how she found out both times, both times the same way, his phone, and what it looks like to go into FBI mode and call the other woman before you've even processed what's happening. We talk about why she stayed the first time, why she's still there now ("I'm just here. That doesn't mean I'm staying."), and the fear of leaving when you co-parent a six-year-old with a man who's also genuinely your best friend. We get into when affairs are a symptom of something deeper, the difference between hating someone and being indifferent to them, what it actually feels like when your gut tells you he's cheating again, and what she'd say to the woman her husband was sleeping with if she could sit down with her now. She's already done that with all three. It didn't go how you'd think. This is one of the most respectful conversations I've had on this show. Sydney's perspective is new territory for me, and if you've been on either side of this, it's worth your time. 🍒 Interested in working with me? Let’s chat. 🌱 Tired of performing fine? Get The Self-Worth Reset 🎧 New episodes every Thursday! 💌 Business inquiries: teamnikkicorbett@gmail.com

    1 hr
  3. Jun 11

    Why I Got Back on a Dating App After Swearing It Off

    I matched with a guy on a dating app. We planned a date. Thirty minutes later, he unmatched me. That's the open. That's where this season starts. Welcome to the Summer of George. The reference is from Seinfeld, where George gets let go with a three-month severance and decides to make the most of it. That's where I am this summer. Not unemployed, but standing in a quiet moment after a busy four months and realizing my social life in Scottsdale was built on other people's schedules. The snowbirds left. The visitors stopped coming. And I had not done a very good job of building an actual life here for myself. So I'm doing something about it. I got back on a dating app after saying I never would. I'm going to workout classes I've always wanted to try. I'm networking. I'm saying yes. The whole point of this summer is to put myself out there and see what happens. There's also something most single women in midlife won't say out loud. I love my life. I wake up grateful. And I still get lonely sometimes. Both can be true at once. I'm not settling, and I'm not waiting around either. The unmatch story is the perfect kickoff because it sets up something I didn't think about when I started this show: I'm single and I'm Google-able. The person I end up with is going to love this version of me. Anyone who can't handle my past has saved us both some time. The Summer of George runs June 10 through September 30. Weekly bonus updates wherever I happen to be. Scottsdale, LA, back to Scottsdale, then Greece. Come along. 🍒 Interested in working with me? Let’s chat. 🌱 Tired of performing fine? Get The Self-Worth Reset 🎧 New episodes every Thursday! 💌 Business inquiries: teamnikkicorbett@gmail.com

    17 min
  4. May 29 ·  Bonus

    Why Do Women Marry Men They Don't Love? The Vrabel & Russini Story

    I've been watching the Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini story unfold for a few weeks, and the more I dug in, the more it stopped being about an affair and started being about something else entirely. A bar in New York in 2020. A boat in Tennessee in 2021 with her pregnant and just the two of them on the water. A casino in Mississippi weeks after he got fired. An adults-only resort in Sedona this spring. Six years of "coincidences." They've denied all of it. But the part that actually got me wasn't the timeline. It was her own words. Resurfaced clips of her on national TV calling her husband average. Joking she'd be divorced by Christmas. Telling a story about interviewing Jimmy Garoppolo the night before her wedding and calling it "a sign." She said she stayed skeptical about her own husband, in her words, until she met him at the altar. So I had to ask the question nobody else covering this is asking. Why was she getting married in the first place? And it opens up something so many of us have lived through — women who married men they weren't sure about because they were worried about time, worried about starting over, worried about being alone. I know five women who've admitted some version of this to me. I'm betting you do too. This is a bonus episode and I am not pretending I know what's true between these two people. I'm just talking about the question their story raises for the rest of us. Why do women marry men they don't actually want to marry — and what does that cost down the line? 🍒 Interested in working with me? Let’s chat. 🌱 Tired of performing fine? Get The Self-Worth Reset 🎧 New episodes every Thursday! 💌 Business inquiries: teamnikkicorbett@gmail.com

    20 min
4.7
out of 5
39 Ratings

About

I was the other woman for five years. He was married. It wasn't the plan — but it happened, and it changed everything about how I see love, relationships, and myself. The Scarlet Edit is my podcast. I started it because I was tired of carrying my story in silence and I knew I wasn't the only one. This is where I talk about affairs, infidelity, cheating, divorce, and starting over — without shame, without the moral lectures, and without pretending that love and relationships fit into the neat little boxes everyone wants them to. I'm Nikki Corbett. I've been the other woman. I've been divorced. I'm on the other side — and I have a lot to say about it. I talk about the process of owning my self worth - what I actually want, who I actually am, and what love looks like when you stop performing and start being honest. Every Thursday, I share what I'm learning, what I'm living, and what I'm still figuring out. Sometimes that's a solo episode where I go deep on my own experience — falling in love with a married man, the loneliness of affairs, the grief that comes after you walk away from something that wasn't yours to keep. Sometimes it's a conversation with a guest who has been through their own version of the mess — narcissistic abuse, toxic relationships, divorce in midlife, secret relationships, or the slow process of rebuilding after everything falls apart. This show is for the woman who has been the other woman and never had a safe place to talk about it. For the woman going through a divorce she didn't see coming. For the woman stuck in a marriage that looks fine on the outside but feels dead on the inside. For the woman who is dating again after years and has no idea what she's doing. For the woman who is choosing to be alone and is learning that solo doesn't mean lonely. The woman who was the one who cheated and is carrying that too. And for anyone who has ever been told that their story makes them less worthy of love — it doesn't. I don't have all the answers. I'm not a therapist. I'm just a woman who decided to stop being quiet about the things we're all going through but nobody wants to say out loud. If you've ever thought "am I the only one?" — you're not. Pull up a chair. Let's talk about it. New episodes every Thursday. 💌 Business inquiries: teamnikkicorbett@gmail.com

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