My Wife Cheated With the Neighbor; We're Still Married with Harrison Scott Key—Humor Writer

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Harrison Scott Key thought his life was moving in the right direction. An award-winning humor writer, with two successful books under his belt, he was working on his third when everything hit the fan. His wife, the mother of his three girls, and a woman who spent nearly every Sunday of her life in church, was asking for a divorce. Why? She was in love with someone else. Who? The next door neighbor. Initially preparing for the messy aftermath that would inevitably follow, Harrison was confronted with a different option when a friend asked, “Aren’t you going to fight for your wife?” What happens next is a story you have to hear to believe. Harrison is making aggressive moves that will push your own relationships forward.

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0:00.0	And she said, I want a divorce.
0:02.0	And I like pause and thought about it.
0:05.0	It's like, okay.
0:07.0	That's okay.
0:08.0	I said, why?
0:10.0	That's all I said, I said, why?
0:12.0	She said, I'm in love with someone else.
0:14.0	I said who.
0:16.0	And she said the guy's name,
0:18.0	who had been our neighbor for like seven years up until recently.
0:41.0	Welcome the aggressive life.
0:44.6	Harrison Scott Key.
0:49.0	Some people just have these names that, why don't I have that name?
0:49.8	What a good... Harrison Scott Key.
0:52.8	He is a funny man whose life has taken some less than funny turns.
0:59.3	He had a devastating turn, which I thought about maybe just having him talk.
1:04.7	We will have him talk about it, but I'll just let the cat out of the bag.
1:08.0	His devastating turn, discovering that his wife and the mother of his three
1:12.8	daughters was having an affair with a family friend. How does a humor writer respond to that?
1:20.4	Well, by writing with hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking insight into the nature of relationships. Relationships is
1:29.3	something everyone wants, but very few people want to do. Having a relationship and doing a
1:35.8	relationship are completely different things. Spoiler alert, Harrison and his wife, Lauren,
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