Leslie John

And it was one that really worked for them.

And they even celebrated it, you could tell in this email chain.

So

I mean, Jennifer was a very open-minded person, and she thought, wow, that's shocking.

But you do you, and if that works for you, great.

But the more dominant feeling that Jennifer had, her whole body filled with anger and rage.

Like, you know when you feel it super viscerally?

That is how Jennifer felt.

Because immediately she goes back in time in her mind to that fateful call that was, you know, seven or so years ago between her mother, Donna, and herself, the pre-wedding jitters call, and how Jennifer had felt so assuaged.

And Jennifer felt that Donna's words really, really did affect that decision.

And the reason Jennifer was filled with rage because she said to herself, wait.

Mom, you only told me half the truth.

You didn't tell me that the way your kind of escape valve, the way you handle this fact that you have people that you, shall I say, enjoy your flirtations with maybe more than her father, was by having this release valve, this mutual agreement.

And this would have been extremely pertinent for Jennifer to have known because Jennifer was quite certain at that time that if she had known the full picture of what her parents' relationship was...

she would not have married Philip because she knew that although that worked for them, she knew it wouldn't work for her and that's not what she wanted.

And so she really felt like kind of betrayed by her mother.

And she felt like it would have been better if her mother had said nothing, if her mother hadn't even picked up the phone, than to share only half the story.

Exactly.

Yes, she did.

Um, so years later, Jennifer, her anger faded because everything turned out beautifully for her.