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

Once arched enemies and now partners in crime, we journeyed 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-Yves 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.

This is the part of the story that gets even more complicated, so I'll do my best to explain it as

best I can.

I am now in year five of my relationship with Ben, and we just celebrated our one-year anniversary.

He's winding down his alleged cancer treatments in Seattle, and we have rented a cute little

home in Hillsborough, Oregon. We also have the long-distance

parenting plan signed off on by the courts as well. This is all allegedly.

Athena at this point has zero idea that we're even married, nor that Ben is in the process of

moving to Oregon. This is because we're exclusively using a parenting app, but the twist is that Ben created

fake emails for her and her husband and is writing back and forth on their behalf.

She is desperately trying to get to the bottom of why Sydney is acting so strange,

and me and Athena have not seen or spoken

to one another for years. Deanna has just finished beauty school and is desperately trying to get

away from Ben physically, financially, and emotionally, but he's terrorizing her every step of the way.

And while all this is percolating, Ben goes on Tinder and meets a woman in Norway and begins

an online relationship with her secretly with plans to have her come visit him in the States.

And then there's Avery. She rarely sees him, but on rare occasions, but still is sold on the dream he's selling her.

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