Love bombing. Yep. Manipulation? Gaslighting? Uh-huh. Wow. I guess we really weren't the only ones.

You got that right. Welcome to the X-Files, a new spin-off of ex-wives undercover. Now we're sharing your

stories of love gone wrong. Sometimes we laugh,

sometimes we cry, but more importantly, we stand together. Please be aware that this podcast

is for a mature audience. Listener discretion is advised. Welcome back. I'm Amber. And I'm Athena. Previously on

The X-Files. In the last episode, Ted gets out of prison and he and Anna were finally free to begin

their lives together. Needless to say, things got off to a rocky start when Ted opened a

consignment store and began flirting

with all the women who would come in. And just when they were supposed to get a place together,

Ted breaks up with Anna over email. Gone but not forgotten, he, of course, reappears, and they

briefly got back together only for him to break up with her again.

So what does she do?

She begins dating one of Ted's friends from prison.

In this episode, we are in year three of Anna's relationship with Ted.

And also, just a quick note, we did find Ted's ex-wife's blog that was mentioned in the last episode,

but unfortunately, it didn't have a lot of insight into her side of the story other than this excerpt.

It reads, I thought our marriage was strong, and while he was pretty up and down emotionally during his time in prison,

I was determined to not become a statistic and let our lives crumble. But after he was released,

and we were trying to rebuild our lives where his family lives, he told me he had been talking

to a woman from high school the whole time he was in prison. After overcoming life with the FBI,

courts and prison systems forgiving him for that and fixing our marriage seemed pretty easy in my

mind. But as I learned the hard way, you cannot control the decisions of others and we ended up

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