Jen Hatmaker is opening up about the time she learned her then husband Brandon Hatmaker was having an affair with another woman.
The 51-year-old author and former host of HGTV’s Your Big Family Renovation has detailed in her new book, “Awake,” about discovering her ex was having an affair, sharing the moment she found out.
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In the memoir, Jen writes that she was woken from a “dead sleep” at “2:30 am, on July 11, 2020,” to hear her husband whispering on his phone.
“I hear five whispered words not meant for me: ‘I just can’t quit you.’ My husband of 26 years is voice-texting his girlfriend next to me in our bed. It is the end of my life as I know it,” she shared, via People.
After that, she endured “chaos” over the next few hours, the “trial of betrayal” she found as she went through his computer.
“An entire other life. My body is frozen. I can’t even cry. My whole world is slipping away click by click,” Jen wrote.
Four hours after being woken up, Jen told Brandon to “pack his sh-t and get out,” and that was the “last night he ever spends at our house.”
You can read Jen‘s full story of events in her new book, “Awake: A Memoir,” which can be purchased on Amazon now!
Following this revelation being made public, Brandon spoke out in a lengthy response on his Substack.
“The lowest moment of my life was my very public affair five years ago,” he writes. “I caused so much pain and I brought so much humiliation into the lives of people that I loved. It was the culmination of a three-year personal spiral in which I had lost my anchor, felt no hope, and was the loneliest I’ve ever been in my life.”
“While that was the lowest moment of my life, a very close second, is having to relive it today. Even harder, to watch others who I love – because of my failures – having to do the same,” Brandon continued. “I’ve owned my mistakes, I’ve made amends, I continue to do the work, I’ve worked hard to restore relationships, and I’ve started over.”
He continued to note that the Substack post was not him trying to excuse his actions, but rather “add context to a handful of areas where the vast majority, and nearly every new follower, is missing. It’s about a few items that don’t change what I did, but warrant some important distinctions…”
“There are no excuses. Nothing can make this wrong a right. But I do hope it to be helpful if some of you find yourself in my story. Maybe it will save you some heartbreak,” Brandon shared. “The truth is that people in a healthy marriage don’t just wake up one day and decide to have an affair. I didn’t fall out of love overnight. Our relationship was coming to a slow and painful ending. And I privately mourned the death of our marriage years before our divorce.”
“I guess I’m writing this to you to bring some humanity and hope back to the other side. Not one that makes excuses, but one that helps us to look at others as humans agai,” he adds. “Jen has every right to share her piece of the story. I don’t blame her for that. But I believe there are some truths left out that paint a false narrative on topics that are truly important to me. I’m not saying what she wrote is untrue. I’m saying that what’s left unsaid isn’t her responsibility to tell. The only one who can do that, is me.”
He then offered five points that he wanted to add context and clarity to – “Parenting,” “We were Pastors,” “Fighting for my Marriage,” “Is the Book a ‘Tell All’?” and “My Wife.”
You can read his full post HERE.
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Source: justjared.com