Infidelity & the Church: Living an Interruptible Life
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Infidelity & the Church: Living an Interruptible Life

It’s now the morning of August 17th, 2018. I haven’t slept at all. I am counting down the minutes until my phone says it’s 7 AM. And then I promptly call my friend Ashton Harwood. She picks up right away, and the second I hear her voice it sends me into sobs. I can barely pull myself together to stutter the words, “I caught Cord cheating on me last night.”

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Infidelity & the Church: “Why I Cheated”
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Infidelity & the Church: “Why I Cheated”

Up until this point in our story, you have only heard my (Cassie’s) perspective. But today, we want to share Cord’s perspective. His side of this story is really where the power of our testimony lies. We have been writing these blog posts in partnership with each other, and we see great value in bringing Cord’s voice into all of this, creating the space for him to share why he cheated in the first place and what brought him to “rock bottom”.

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Infidelity & the Church: How We Healed
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Infidelity & the Church: How We Healed

We left off with Cord coming home to me after his deliverance experience to confess the full extent of his infidelity. I was extremely guarded when the conversation started that night. I was fully prepared for him to come home and try to fill me with more BS and to try to minimize his actions— that was all I had ever seen from him. But what happened that night was very different from what I expected.

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