HGTV’s Jen Hatmaker
Reveals Center of the Evening Discovery That Ended Her Marriage
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Jen Hatmaker says her image excellent life got here crashing down in the course of the night time when she caught her husband whispering to a different girl on the telephone.
In her new memoir “Awake,” the HGTV star particulars the surprising second she found her husband of 26 years, Brandon Hatmaker, was dishonest. Jen says at 2:30 AM in July 2020, she was jolted awake by her husband whispering into the telephone … “I simply can’t give up you.” When he drifted off to sleep, reeking of booze.
Jen recollects spending the subsequent 4 hours digging by way of Brandon’s laptop, the place she uncovered what she calls a “path of betrayal” together with an extended working affair and lavish presents that left the household in monetary chaos. By morning, she kicked him out of their Texas house.
The “My Large Household Renovation” star says the affair was simply the ultimate blow in a wedding already in bother. They hadn’t had intercourse for 2 years, and regardless of marriage counseling, Jen now realizes the crimson flags have been all over the place.
Jen claims Brandon made no effort to reconcile and was engaged to a different girl inside a yr. In the meantime, Jen says she battled despair and nervousness, elevating 5 children alone through the pandemic.
Jen says she’s lower ties with the church they cofounded collectively, discovered love once more with writer Tyler Merritt, welcomed her first grandchild, and is decided by no means to “outsource” her life once more.
“I am going to by no means let anybody else drive my story,” she says. “That is my life and I am awake now.”
