In this episode we meet Jenni Kephart, who has been divorced for 10 years and is a mother of a beautiful four year old boy. This interview was very special for me because of the content we speak of and who Jenni is. When I learned that she had cheated on her then husband a nerve was struck on my side and it wasn’t till the end of episode 19.1 that I realized why. I had never spoken with someone or understood what someone who cheats goes through. I only knew how to blame them for doing it.

Jenni shares how telling on herself about infidelity was her way of playing out a pattern. She explains how she did not think that the relationship would be over. How she expected anger and other things, but not for it to be over.  She explains how up until that point in her life she had always lived above the consequences.

She talks about her first six months and how the experience of divorce was also accompanied by the experience of sobriety. Early in the interview she expressed how the harder she tried to fix things, the worse it got. So she chose to stop drinking on the day she told him and hasn’t since.

I learned more than I was expecting with Jenni. At first I wanted to make her wrong for the things she did. Then, as I gave her a chance to tell her story I began to understand what we as people go through on both sides of a relationship. 

This whole series with Jenni is extremely vulnerable and I am grateful to her that she allowed us to listen. Although she would disagree. I think she is very courageous and as an audience you are very fortunate to hear what is going to share.