It was complete clarity to me. The marriage is over, the friendship is over, they are not who I believed them to be.

I'm Laura Tremaine. I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you and you have 10 things to tell.

This show is about connection with each other and with ourselves and the hope is that the things we talk about here

will be fuel for better conversations and a personal awareness. Each episode has a

prompt or a topic that I want you to take to your journal, text to a friend, or share on social media using

the hashtag 10 Things to Tell You.

This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our stuff.

I'll go first.

Today we're going to visit another conversation

in my Friendship Stories series.

As a reminder, last year when I was writing my new book, The Life Council, I did dozens of interviews as part of my research with people who had unique friendship stories.

I'm featuring some of these stories over the next few months as we lead up to the Life Council's release.

Our first episode in the Friendship Stories series was about Friendship Soulmates.

But what you're going to listen to today is about friendship betrayal.

My guest Melissa is going to share her raw and vulnerable experience of a spouse and a best friend's

ultimate transgression.

Melissa's story has several jaw-dropping moments,

but this isn't a perspective only about scandal.

There are also so many details here about those friends or sometimes even acquaintances who met

Melissa in the moment just when she needed it most.

There's a section in my upcoming book, The Life Council, called The Empty Chair, and it's a chapter about friendship heartbreak and leaving that empty chair open until someone comes along to fill it.

Melissa's story fits that idea.

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