Amanda Chelekis

Amanda was a working woman residing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She had a family of her own, as perfect as it could be, a husband and two daughters. Amanda worked as a nurse-practitioner where her career was climbing the stairs to success.Amanda’s life was nothing less than an American dream for her. She and her husband had worked really hard to get a beautiful house and to provide everything possible that was within their reach for their beautiful daughters. Amanda had everything she could ever ask her.

James Chelekis

James Philip Chelekis, a 32-year-old man, husband of Amanda, was a Mathematics teacher in Kentwood Public School. James and Amanda had been married for 10 years and were deeply in love with each other, or so it seemed. Life is a two-way process. So with happiness comes sadness as well. Amanda and James seemed to have a perfect life, full of happy colors. But soon all was going to change and things were going to turn out to be very unpleasant.

Broken

On the night of June 26th, 2017, Amanda’s perfect life collapsed into a million pieces. She discovered something that every married person fears about. Her husband, whom she had trusted with all her heart had cheated on her. Amanda felt like she had been a fool all this time to think that she could look forward to James for anything in the world. She had always thought that her relationship with James was forever. She could not understand a thing.

Counseling

The two decided that they would go to a couple-counselor to save their marriage. They owed this to themselves and their daughters who were nowhere at fault here to suffer the separation of their parents. But there was a lot of suffering in its way. Although Amanda and James had a night-long discussion, there was one thing that was bothering Amanda to the core. James told her everything about his affair except for that one major thing, who was the girl he had cheated her with? And James had been adamant about not disclosing that.

A Break

After asking about the woman countless times, Amanda got frustrated. She could not get to terms with the fact that despite cheating on her, James would not even disclose the name of the woman. Amanda was disturbed and said she wanted a break from all this. But this break was going to be very heavy for her.