Belle Burden

It actually means just saying what happened.

I think as women and as mothers in particular, we are taught that when something like this happens, we feel

need to just clean it up, sweep it under the rug and pretend like it didn't happen.

And I think that doing that does not serve us.

It actually protects men.

It demeans us.

And I think it actually leads to, at least in my family, the behavior being repeated across generations.

And I hope

that by talking about it in a factual way that I can stop that pattern for my children.

There were a couple of parts that were challenging.

It was painful at the time to write about falling in love with my husband because I honestly was still in love with him.

When someone walks out and you have had no lead up to it, it's very hard to catch up to that.

And your heart is hurting.

It's hard to write about that.

And then it was hard to write about...

The experience I had in my social world, because I wanted to write about these things, but I didn't want to be pointing fingers and complaining.

And it's very hard to keep that line and that equilibrium to be examining without really becoming just very gripey.

Yes, that was an experience.

I was really nervous about that.

But I had a wonderful team helping me directing and producing it.