Leslie John

And that's all that Jennifer wanted was a really stable, loving, wonderful relationship.

And her mom said, Huh.

It's funny, Jen, that you should ask because a month before I married your father, I was actually having similar doubts.

And, oh, I'm so glad I went ahead with marrying him because look how happy we are.

Look at how great our marriage is.

We work.

And she said, like, Jen, I know you.

You're like me.

You struggle to make decisions.

You ruminate.

You question everything.

But sometimes you just – if it feels right, you got to go with it.

And so Jennifer took a lot of comfort in that phone call.

And what she thought was, yeah, I already have – my love with Philip is already the mature kind.

Passionate love fades.

What's really special and important is the mature kind, the kind that my mother has always had with my father.

And so a month later, Jennifer and Philip were married.

Five very complicated years later, they were divorced.

Yeah.

It was an email chain that originated between Donna and her husband.