The Children’s Experience of My Affair, Our Divorce

Unintended Victims

Affairs often have multiple victims. This episode gives voice to some of them.

Tim and Konnie's story has been told, in their own words, across two honest episodes. But there were others in that story, too. Five children who didn't choose what happened, didn't cause it, and couldn't stop it, but who carried it nonetheless, each in their own way.

In this bonus episode, released before the final conversation between Tim and Konnie, two of those children speak. Their oldest son and youngest daughter offer their own perspective on what it was like to grow up through their father’s affair, the divorce, and everything that followed. They weren't coached toward a particular conclusion. They were simply invited to be honest.

Their perspectives are windows into the experiences of children who had no say in the story they were handed, and into what it took to find their footing within it.

If you are a parent who has put your children through something like this, listen carefully. This one is for you.

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