Can You Sue Your Husband's Mistress? What a Divorce Lawyer Told Me

I had a divorce lawyer on the show this week, and about ten minutes in she told me something I didn't know was legal anywhere in this country. In North Carolina, a wife can sue her husband's mistress. Not the husband. The other woman. There's an entire civil action built for it, and Nicole Sodoma, who's practiced family law for 25 years, walked me through exactly how it works.

I'll get to the lawsuit, because it's wild. But the conversation that stayed with me afterward wasn't about suing anyone. It was about why marriages actually fall apart, and how rarely the affair is the real answer.