Iyanla: Fix My Cheating Husband

Iyanla: Fix My Life

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4.7 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Iyanla stops in Shreveport, Louisiana, to help a couple in turmoil. A married pastor says that he has had affairs with women in his church and has fathered a child with one of his mistresses. His wife says she is emotionally exhausted, contemplating divorce and needs to make a decision about their future. She says that her husband has cheated on her throughout their 10-year marriage and that his infidelity has even played out publicly in the local media. She says she still loves her husband and wants to find a way for them to heal, but both are at a loss as to where they start. Can Iyanla help this couple heal?

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0:00.0	Let me tell you who I am. I am a survivor, a teenage mother, a welfare recipient, and a woman. I am a teacher, life coach, minister, lawyer, and author. I've had my share of breakups, breakdowns, and breakthroughs. I did my work and put my life back together piece by piece. I am I
0:23.2	Yianna Van Zand, and I am here to help you do your work. I'm here in Shreveport, Louisiana,
0:32.8	the deep south. I'm here to support a couple that's in deep trouble. The wife wrote me saying that she and her husband are separated,
0:41.3	considering divorce, but they're keeping it a secret.
0:46.3	The reason, he's the pastor of a local church.
0:50.3	Every Sunday morning, Pastor Patrick Dennis prepares for his sermon as his wife Natasha
0:57.3	and their three children get ready for church. But for the last eight months, this couple
1:04.2	has been keeping a secret. They have been living apart while pretending to their church
1:09.8	that they are still together.
1:11.6	I am very nervous.
1:13.6	We're headed to the church for morning worship.
1:17.6	The church doesn't know we're separated.
1:19.6	The members think that we're one big happy family, which couldn't be further from the truth right now.
1:24.6	I dropped the ball.
1:26.6	I betrayed her trust.
1:29.3	I mean, I've messed up in ways unimaginable.
1:33.3	Pastor Dennis admits to cheating on his wife many times.
1:37.3	He says there's been about 20 women that he's had affairs with during his 10-year marriage to Natasha.
1:46.6	Pastor Dennis says several of those women are members of his congregation. One of his affairs resulted in a child. After learning
1:54.7	about her husband's repeated infidelity, Natasha decided to move out and she says she's also had an affair. Now Natasha's
2:03.9	torn between trying to fix her marriage or moving on. So I'm on my way to see Natasha. She's the
2:12.4	wife that wrote me about her troubled marriage. Now, Natasha is not only a wife.
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