No one ever saw this coming, but here we are, bonded forever by the same ex-husband.

Once our enemies and now partners in crime, we journey to the edge of sanity to uncover the dark truth about her ex-husband.

My name is Athena, and I'm Amber, and we are the creators of X-Y's undercover.

This podcast is based on real-life events that are portrayed to the best of Athena and Amber's memory and also backed by court records and other factual evidence.

While all the stories in the podcast are true,

some names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of the people involved.

As always, I'm going to give you a little more clarification on where we're at in the story.

I am now in year four of my relationship with Ben and approaching our one-year wedding anniversary.

Deanna is in year two of her, on and off again relationship with him, and Avery is just in year one.

Sydney is keeping all of Ben's mounting lies for him as she's staying in hotels with us

when I'm in town.

Athena and Chris are now married and they're noticing that Ben is getting flakier by the

minute when it comes to the parenting plan and that Sydney is showing some serious behavioral

issues.

On with a story, season one, episode 26, hot lava.

Every time I thought my heart couldn't get any more broken, it did.

Driving home that day, battered and bruised, I sobbed uncontrollably

for hours until I arrived in Portland. I was so blindsided and felt so incredibly betrayed by the one

man who I was supposed to trust the most. And to hear another woman call my husband, her boyfriend, felt like somebody reached in,

grabbed my heart, and ripped it out of my chest with her bare hands. Why was this happening to me?

What could I have possibly done to deserve any of this? I was so ashamed of myself for putting up

with everything Ben had put me through for the last four years

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