The Good Life

Jennifer Bazner, MA, LLPC, works with individuals and families in crisis, including families racked by infidelity. She is on the staff of www.break-free-from-the-affair as well as the Fountain Hill Center for Counseling and Consultation.

My story begins almost ten years ago when I started to date and fell in love with someone I thought was a wonderful man. He was everything to me, I thought until life came at us hard and I became ill. I was diagnosed as having classic depression and anxiety. I had to leave my job because I couldn't drive on the medication I was taking. He began working two jobs, or so I thought, but also started what began a year and a half affair. We had split up before I found out because he stated he couldn't handle the pressure of my problems and his, it was just too much. But we continued to see each other on and off, that is how I found out because the "other woman" found out he was still seeing me. Being jealous, she decided to tell me about their long time affair. Several months passed and I forgave him, and took him back. Again, several years later, he began to see her again.

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